Top 200 Virgil Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

108. “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

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

111. “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

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

— Virgil

113. “All our sweetest hours fly fastest.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

125. “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

126. “Who can blind lover’s eyes?”

— Virgil

127. “Fortune favors those who dare.”

— Virgil

128. “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

129. “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

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

132. “Veiling truth in mystery.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

134. “Furens quid femina possit.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

136. “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

137. “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

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

— Virgil

139. “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

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

— Virgil

141. “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

142. “Love triumphs over all.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

144. “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

145. “Fear betrays unworthy souls.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

148. “Degeneres animos timor arguit:.”

— Virgil

149. “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

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

— Virgil