No stranger to misfortune myself, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others.
VIRGILLook with favour upon a bold beginning.
More Virgil Quotes
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Spare the meek, but subdue the arrogant.
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The noblest motive is the public good.
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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.
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All things by nature are ready to get worse.
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As it spreads, the rumor gains strength.
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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.
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All bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
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Through pain I’ve learned to comfort suffering men.
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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
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Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.
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Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.
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Time passes irrevocably.
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It is easy to go down into Hell but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – there’s the rub.
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Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
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Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
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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.
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A woman is an ever fickle and changeable thing.
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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.
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The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent and easy is the way.
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Time carries all things, even our wits, away.
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No benefits can be expected from war.
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All our sweetest hours fly fastest
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Death twitches my ear, live he says – I am coming.
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Time is flying never to return.
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Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.
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Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.
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