Virgil

Poet Roman 70 – 19

Roman poet best known for the Aeneid epic poem.

394 quotes

"I sing of arms and the man who first came forth from Troy's boundaries to Italy and the Lavinian shores."
Literature
"Fortune favors the bold."
Courage
"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life?"
Love
"I fear the Greeks, even bearing gifts."
Wisdom
"Time is flying never to return."
Time
"Riches of the mind are the truest riches."
Knowledge
"Yield to the occasion."
Change
"Death twitches my ear. 'Live,' he says, 'I am coming.'"
Death
"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."
Truth
"Each man bears his own hell within him."
Life
"What would you not do for a loved one?"
Family
"Begin, and to a certain extent the work is done."
Perseverance
"Success follows those who have faith in their abilities."
Success
"The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires."
Happiness
"Arms and the man I sing, who first made ways by war's hard arbitrament."
War
"To be a noble friend is a noble thing."
Friendship
"I am not what I once was; do not ask me to be."
Change
"Art warms the cold, stirs the wind, cheers the unhappy."
Art
"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."
Life
"The day will come when no one will have to give any reason for anything."
Freedom
"Learn the value of a penny by losing a pound."
Wisdom
"Even in the depths of winter I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."
Hope
"Trust the man who has made a trial of himself."
Courage
"Your descendants shall gather your fruits."
"The wound, though healed, yet aches at every change of weather."
"Not all who wander are lost in finding their way."
Adventure
"The pine trees of Arcadia are famous."
Nature
"He who hides his genius achieves less than he might."
Creativity
"Labor overcomes all things."
Work
"In every heart there is a spark of hope."
Hope