Top 180 Virgil Quotes (2023 Update)
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101. “From a single crime know the nation.”

— Virgil

102. “All our sweetest hours fly fastest.”

— Virgil

103. “Hug the shore; let others try the deep.”

— Virgil

104. “Love conquers all. Let Love then smile at our defeat.”

— Virgil

105. “The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.”

— Virgil

106. “He enters the port with a full sail.”

— Virgil

107. “Is it then so sad a thing to die?”

— Virgil

108. “In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour’d sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death’s inexorable doom.”

— Virgil

109. “A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever.”

— Virgil

110. “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

111. “All things by nature are ready to get worse.”

— Virgil

112. “Every man’s last day is fixed. Lifetimes are brief, and not to be regained, for all mankind. But by their deeds to make their fame last: that is labor for the brave.”

— Virgil

113. “What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.”

— Virgil

114. “Who can blind lover’s eyes?”

— Virgil

115. “Every man makes a god of his own desire.”

— Virgil

116. “Veiling truth in mystery.”

— Virgil

117. “Rumor goes forth at once, Rumor than whom No other speedier evil thing exists; She thrives by rapid movement, and acquires Strength as she goes; small at the first from fear, She presently uplifts herself aloft, And stalks upon the ground and hides her head Among the clouds.”

— Virgil

118. “Passion and strife bow down the mind.”

— Virgil

119. “Fortune favors those who dare.”

— Virgil

120. “The seeds of life – fiery is their force, divine their birth, but they are weighed down by the bodies’ ills or dulled by limbs and flesh that’s born for death. That is the source of all men’s fears and longings, joys and sorrows, nor can they see the heaven’s light, shut up in the body’s tomb, a prison dark and deep.”

— Virgil

121. “Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.”

— Virgil

122. “Love triumphs over all.”

— Virgil

123. “We have to thank God for this retirement.”

— Virgil

124. “To each man shall his own free actions bring both his suffering and his good fortune. Jupiter is impartially king over all alike. The Fates will find the way.”

— Virgil

125. “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

126. “But if my forces are not enough, I am hardly the one to relent, I’ll plead for the help I need, wherever it may be – if I cannot sway the heavens, I’ll wake the powers of hell!”

— Virgil

127. “Love conquers all; therefore, let us submit to love.”

— Virgil

128. “There are twin Gates of Sleep. One, they say, is called the Gate of Horn and it offers easy passage to all true shades. The other glistens with ivory, radiant, flawless, but through it the dead send false dreams up toward the sky. And here Anchises, his vision told in full, escorts his son and Sibyl both and shows them out now through the Ivory Gate.”

— Virgil

129. “The grim lioness follows the wolf, the wolf himself the goat, the wanton goat the flowering clover, and Corydon follows you, Alexis. Each is led by his liking.”

— Virgil

130. “Frantic in my fury I had no time for decisions; I only remembered that death in battle is glorious.”

— Virgil

131. “Time carries all things, even our wits, away.”

— Virgil

132. “These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust.”

— Virgil

133. “Their rage supplies them with weapons.”

— Virgil

134. “To Romans I set no boundary in space or time. I have granted them dominion, and it has no end.”

— Virgil

135. “When gods are contrary they stand by no one.”

— Virgil

136. “Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.”

— Virgil

137. “Fear betrays unworthy souls.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

139. “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

140. “Your descendants shall gather your fruits.”

— Virgil

141. “Then, like ravening wolves in a black mist, when the belly’s lawless rage has driven them blindly forth, and their whelps at home await them with thirsty jaws, through swords, through foes we pass to certain death, and hold our way to the city’s heart; black night hovers around with sheltering shade.”

— Virgil

142. “If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.”

— Virgil

143. “Yet here, this night, you might repose with me, On green leaves pillowed: apples ripe have I, Soft chestnuts, and of curdled milk enow. And, see, the farm-roof chimneys smoke afar, And from the hills the shadows lengthening fall!”

— Virgil

144. “In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.”

— Virgil

145. “I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.”

— Virgil

146. “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

147. “O you who have borne even heavier things, to these too, God will grant an end!”

— Virgil

148. “Though far away, I will chase you with murky brands and, when chill death has severed soul and body, everywhere my shade shall haunt you.”

— Virgil

149. “Turnus was distraught with love and fixed his eyes on Lavinia.”

— Virgil

150. “Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.”

— Virgil