Top 180 Virgil Quotes (2023 Update)
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151. “Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.”

— Virgil

152. “O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.”

— Virgil

153. “The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions.”

— Virgil

154. “Age steals away all things, even the mind.”

— Virgil

155. “The Britons are quite separated from all the world.”

— Virgil

156. “Fury itself supplies arms.”

— Virgil

157. “Those gods on whom our power hitherto depended have forsaken their altars and their shrines and gone forth from us; the city which you would rescue is already ablaze; and it is for us to plunge amid the spears and die. Nothing can save the conquered but the knowledge that they cannot now be saved.”

— Virgil

158. “Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction.”

— Virgil

159. “Meanwhile Aeneas the True longed to allay her grief and dispel her sufferings with kind words. yet he remained obedient to the divine command, and with many a sigh, for he was shaken to the depths by the strength of his love, returned to his ships.”

— Virgil

160. “Each of us finds the world of death fitted to himself.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

162. “Each man is led by his own liking.”

— Virgil

163. “I too am a poet who has found some favour with the Muse. I too have written songs. I too have heard the shepherds call me bard. But I take it from them with a grain of salt: I have the feeling that I cannot yet compare with Varius or Cinna, but cackle like a goose among melodious swans.”

— Virgil

164. “Una salus uictis nullam sperare salutem.”

— Virgil

165. “Is there so much anger in the minds of the gods?”

— Virgil

166. “Live, and prosper, for all your adventures are past. We are called onwards from destiny to destiny. For you, your rest is won.”

— Virgil

167. “But the Danaan princes and Agamemnon’s battalions, soon as they saw the man and his arms flashing amid the glom, trembled with mighty fear; some turn to flee, as of old they sought the ships; some raise a shout – faintly; the cry essayed mocks their gaping mouths.”

— Virgil

168. “The seeds of life – fiery is their force, divine their birth, but they are weighed down by the bodies’ ills or dulled by earthly limbs and flesh that’s born for death.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

170. “If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.”

— Virgil

171. “No other evil we know is faster than Rumor, thriving on speed and becoming stronger by running. Small and timid at first, then borne on a light air, she flits over ground while hiding her head on a cloud-top.”

— Virgil

172. “Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?”

— Virgil

173. “Womankind Is ever a fickle and a changeful thing.”

— Virgil

174. “Rumor starts as a timid thing, But soon it covers the earth, and its voices ring, While its feet walk the ground and its head is above the clouds.”

— Virgil

175. “Want of pluck shows want of blood.”

— Virgil

176. “Each draws to his best-loved.”

— Virgil

177. “His heart beat high for war and he blazed with an implacable fire which needed no kindling.”

— Virgil

178. “From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.”

— Virgil

179. “Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.”

— Virgil

180. “Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.”

— Virgil

181. “There may be no great honour in killing a woman; such a victory can bring no fame. But I shall have some credit for having stamped dead a mortal sin, and punished a wrong which cries out for justice; and it will be joy to have gutted my desire for the vengeance of the fire and satisfied the ashes of all that were ever dear to me.”

— Virgil

182. “What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.”

— Virgil

183. “Night reigned: all through the world tied bodies were harvesting tranquil slumber.”

— Virgil

184. “Mothers of Latium! Hey! Hear me, each one of you, wherever you may be! If you still have any sympathy for poor Amata in your faithful hearts, or any prick of conscience for a mother’s claims, untie the bands around your hair and take to the wild rites with me!”

— Virgil

185. “This is a tale of arms and of a man. Fated to be an exile, he was the first to sail from the land of Troy and reach Italy, at its Lavinian shore. He met many tribulations on his way both by land on on the ocean; high Heaven willed it, for Juno was ruthless and could not forget her anger.”

— Virgil

186. “She prayed then to whatever power may care in comprehending justice for the grief of lovers bound unequally by love.”

— Virgil

187. “There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.”

— Virgil

188. “Dux femina facit.”

— Virgil

189. “I shudder when relating it.”

— Virgil

190. “Ah, piteous boy, Fortune came smiling; was it in jealousy that she then cruelly denied you to me.”

— Virgil

191. “If there is any power of righteousness in Heaven, you will drink to the dregs the cup of punishment amid sea rocks and as you suffer cry “Dido” againa and again. Though far, yet I shall be near, haunting you with flames of blackest pitch. And when death’s chill has parted my body from its breath, wherever you go my spectre will be there,. You will have your punishment, you villain. And I shall hear, the news will reach me deep in the world of death.”

— Virgil

192. “Such were my wild words, for madness had mastered my judgement and gained complete control.”

— Virgil

193. “We have hearts valiant in war, we have spirit, and a manhood which has proved itself by deed.”

— Virgil

194. “Gods whose dominion is over the Souls, Shades without sound, Void, and you, Burning River, and you, broad Spaces voiceless beneath the Night, may I remain sinless in telling what has been told to me, and, by your divine assent, reveal truth sunk in depths of earth and gloom.”

— Virgil

195. “The sky and the lands, the watery plains, the moon’s gleaming face, the Titanic Sun and the stars are all strengthened by Spirit working within them, and by Mind, which is blended into all the vast universe and pervades every part of it, enlivening the whole mass.”

— Virgil

196. “To what crime do you not drive the hearts of men, accursed hunger for gold?”

— Virgil

197. “Yo temo al Griego, aunque presente dones.”

— Virgil

198. “A festive din now rose and echoed through the palace halls. Lighted lamps hung from the coffered ceiling rich with gold leaf, and torches with high flames prevailed over the night.”

— Virgil