Top 200 Virgil Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

107. “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

108. “From a single crime know the nation.”

— Virgil

109. “All our sweetest hours fly fastest.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

119. “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

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

122. “Who can blind lover’s eyes?”

— Virgil

123. “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

124. “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

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

127. “Veiling truth in mystery.”

— Virgil

128. “Fortune favors those who dare.”

— Virgil

129. “I will carry you on my back. This labor of love will never wear me down. Whatever falls to us now, we both will share one peril, one path to safety.”

— Virgil

130. “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

131. “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

132. “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

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

— Virgil

134. “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

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

— Virgil

136. “Love triumphs over all.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

140. “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

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

143. “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

144. “Furens quid femina possit.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

146. “Fear betrays unworthy souls.”

— Virgil

147. “Your descendants shall gather your fruits.”

— Virgil

148. “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

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil