Top 180 Virgil Quotes (2023 Update)
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51. “Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.”

— Virgil

52. “The medicine increases the disease.”

— Virgil

53. “You, Roman, remember to rule peoples with your power. -Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento.”

— Virgil

54. “Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.”

— Virgil

55. “They can conquer who believe they can.”

— Virgil

56. “That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.”

— Virgil

57. “Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.”

— Virgil

58. “Omnia vincit amor.”

— Virgil

59. “Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.”

— Virgil

60. “Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely.”

— Virgil

61. “Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.”

— Virgil

62. “If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.”

— Virgil

63. “The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way.”

— Virgil

64. “Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.”

— Virgil

65. “Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis.”

— Virgil

66. “All things deteriorate in time.”

— Virgil

67. “Ponto nox incubat atra.”

— Virgil

68. “I recognize the vestiges of an old flame.”

— Virgil

69. “Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.”

— Virgil

70. “What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?”

— Virgil

71. “I dragged on my ruined life in darkness and grief, wrathful in my heart...”

— Virgil

72. “To have died once is enough.”

— Virgil

73. “Then endure for a while, and live for a happier day!”

— Virgil

74. “We are not all able to do all things.”

— Virgil

75. “Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.”

— Virgil

76. “Mirabile dictu!”

— Virgil

77. “In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?”

— Virgil

78. “What madness destroyed me and you, Orpheus?”

— Virgil

79. “It is well to be informed about the winds, About the variations in the sky, The native traits and habits of the place, What each locale permits, and what denies.”

— Virgil

80. “As a twig is bent the tree inclines.”

— Virgil

81. “That which an enraged woman can accomplish.”

— Virgil

82. “The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.”

— Virgil

83. “No help or hope of help existed.”

— Virgil

84. “She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.”

— Virgil

85. “Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.”

— Virgil

86. “Mantua gave me birth, Calabri snatched me away, now Parthenope holds me; I sang of shepherds, pastures, and heroes. -Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces.”

— Virgil

87. “Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all.”

— Virgil

88. “He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.”

— Virgil

89. “The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti.”

— Virgil

90. “Death twitches my ear. “Live,” he says. “I am coming.”

— Virgil

91. “Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.”

— Virgil

92. “Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.”

— Virgil

93. “Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth.”

— Virgil

94. “Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.”

— Virgil

95. “Even virtue is fairer in a fair body.”

— Virgil

96. “Just as, all too often, some huge crowd is seized by a vast uprising, the rabble runs amok, all slaves to passion, rocks, firebrands flying. Rage finds them arms but then, if they chance to see a man among them, one whose devotion and public service lend him weight, they stand there, stock-still with their ears alert as he rules their furor with words and calms their passion.”

— Virgil

97. “O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!”

— Virgil

98. “Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.”

— Virgil

99. “A chaplet of leaves crowns the victor.”

— Virgil

100. “Sing in me, muse, of arms and a man, who first from the shores of Troy.”

— Virgil