Top 200 Virgil Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Death twitches my ear. “Live,” he says. “I am coming.”

— Virgil

52. “Learn all from one thing. -Ab uno disce omnes.”

— Virgil

53. “There’s a snake hidden in the grass.”

— Virgil

54. “Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.”

— Virgil

55. “Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.”

— Virgil

56. “The cursed hunger for gold. -Auri sacra fames.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

58. “Through chances various, through all vicissitudes, we make our way...”

— Virgil

59. “The medicine increases the disease.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

74. “Ponto nox incubat atra.”

— Virgil

75. “All things deteriorate in time.”

— Virgil

76. “Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

78. “None but himself can be his parallel.”

— Virgil

79. “Roman, remember by your strength to rule Earth’s peoples – for your arts are to be these: To pacify, to impose the rule of law, To spare the conquered, battle down the proud.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

81. “It is easy to go down into Hell; Night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; But to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – There’s the rub, the task.”

— Virgil

82. “To have died once is enough.”

— Virgil

83. “It is easy to go down into Hell... ; but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – there’s the rub...”

— Virgil

84. “Mirabile dictu!”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

89. “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

90. “I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

92. “Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

94. “Rumor, swiftest of all the evils in the world. She thrives on speed, stronger for every stride, slight with fear at first, soon soaring into the air she treads the ground and hides her head in the clouds.”

— Virgil

95. “O fortunati, quorum iam moenia surgunt!”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

97. “Troy has fallen – and fallen let her stay – with the very name of Troy!”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

99. “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

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

— Virgil