Top 250 Virgil Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “She prayed then to whatever power may care in comprehending justice for the grief of lovers bound unequally by love.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

205. “Decked in the spoils you stripped from one I loved – escape my clutches? Never – Pallas strikes this blow, Pallas sacrifices you now, makes you pay the price with your own guilty blood!”

— Virgil

206. “Et iam prima novo spargebat lumine terras.”

— Virgil

207. “Well, the day has come when a woman’s weapons prove your daydreams wrong! Still, you carry no mean fame to your fathers’ shades – just tell them this: You died by Camilla’s spear!”

— Virgil

208. “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

209. “Hic pietatis honos?”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

211. “I shudder when relating it.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

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

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214. “O Achates, where in the world is there a country, or any place in it, unreached by our suffering? Look; there is Priam. Even here high merit has its due; there is pity for a world’s distress, and a sympathy for short lived humanity.”

— Virgil

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

— Virgil

216. “Now when these souls have trodden the full circle of a thousand years, God call’s all of them forth in long procession to the Lethe River, and this he does so that when they again visit the sky’s vault they may be without memory, and a wish to re-enter bodily life may dawn.”

— Virgil

217. “Sic nos in sceptra reponis?”

— Virgil

218. “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

219. “How fortunate were you, thrice fortunate and more, whose luck it was to die under the high walls of Troy before your parents’ eyes!”

— Virgil

220. “Quis furor iste novus?”

— Virgil

221. “Ah, Palinurus, you were too trustful of the calm sky and sea. So you will lie, a shroudless form, on an unknown strand.”

— Virgil

222. “Absumptae in Teucros vires caelique marisque.”

— Virgil

223. “When once thou shalt be able to now read the glories of heroes and thy father’s deeds, and to know virtue as she is, slowly the plain shall grow golden with the soft corn-spike, and the reddening grape trail from the wild briar, and hard oaks drip of honey.”

— Virgil

224. “The one safety for the defeated is to have no hope of safety.”

— Virgil

225. “His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling – no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.”

— Virgil

226. “Quicquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentis.”

— Virgil

227. “What good are prayers and shrines to a person mad with love?”

— Virgil

228. “It is for men to make wage war and make peace; for that task is theirs.”

— Virgil

229. “But of course – so Turnus can fetch his royal bride – our lives are cheap, scattered in piles across the field, unburied and unwept.”

— Virgil

230. “Sweet relics, sweet so long as God and Destiny allowed, now receive my life-breath, and set me free from this suffering. I have lived my life and finished the course which Fortune allotted me.”

— Virgil

231. “When, soon, they join in their happy wedding-bonds – and wedded let them be – in pacts of peace at last, never command the Latins, here on native soil, to exchange their age-old name, to become Trojans, called the kin of Teucer, alter their language, change their style of dress. Let Latium endure.”

— Virgil

232. “Some of us looked in awed wonder at that massive horse, the gift for Minerva, the never-wed, which was to be our destruction.”

— Virgil

233. “En haec promissa fides est?”

— Virgil

234. “We make our destiny by our choice of the gods.”

— Virgil

235. “Being myself no stranger to grief, I am learning to help the unhappy.”

— Virgil

236. “The friend of my heart.”

— Virgil

237. “May I not shrink from my purpose!”

— Virgil

238. “If I cannot prevail upon heaven, I will stir up hell!”

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239. “Believe one who hath proved it, how mightily he rises over his shield, in what a whirlwind he hurls his spear.”

— Virgil

240. “Venus could bear no more of his laments and broke in on his tale of endless hardship...”

— Virgil

241. “And war in my hand I carry, and death I bear.”

— Virgil

242. “Call up your courage again. Dismiss your grief and fear. A joy it will be one day, perhaps, to remember even this.”

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243. “War will not save us.”

— Virgil

244. “Paeoniis revocatum herbis et amore Dianae.”

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245. “I am Aeneas, duty-bound, and known Above high air of heaven by my fame, Carrying with me in my ships our gods Of hearth and home, saved from the enemy. I look for Italy to be my fatherland, And my descent is from all-highest Jove. ” Line 519.”

— Virgil

246. “In human affairs there is no room for certainty.”

— Virgil

247. “Is death so dreadful a thing?”

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248. “Can anger so fierce stir the hearts of the dwellers in heaven?”

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249. “Quisque suos patimur manes.”

— Virgil

250. “Death plucks my ear and says, ‘Live – I am coming.”

— Virgil