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.
VIRGILEvery 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.
More Virgil Quotes
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No day shall erase you from the memory of time.
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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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Fortune favors the bold.
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She has a human face and as far as the groin she is a girl with lovely breasts, but below she is a monstrous sea creature, her womb full of wolves
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Fear reveals baseborn souls!
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Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.
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No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.
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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.
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Look with favour upon a bold beginning.
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No stranger to misfortune myself, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others.
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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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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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Let me rage before I die.
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Time is flying never to return.
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