Top 200 Virgil Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

106. “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

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

112. “All our sweetest hours fly fastest.”

— Virgil

113. “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

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

125. “Fortune favors those who dare.”

— Virgil

126. “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

127. “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

128. “Who can blind lover’s eyes?”

— Virgil

129. “Furens quid femina possit.”

— Virgil

130. “If I cannot bend the will of Heaven, I shall move hell.”

— Virgil

131. “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

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

134. “Veiling truth in mystery.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

137. “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

138. “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

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

— Virgil

140. “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

141. “Love triumphs over all.”

— Virgil

142. “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

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

— Virgil

144. “Fear betrays unworthy souls.”

— Virgil

145. “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

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

— Virgil

147. “Degeneres animos timor arguit:.”

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

— Virgil

150. “Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.”

— Virgil