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.
VIRGILLet me rage before I die.
More Virgil Quotes
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Through pain I’ve learned to comfort suffering men.
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Fortune sides with him who dares.
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The descent into Hell is easy.
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The greatest wealth is health.
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All bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
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Trust one who has gone through it.
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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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If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.
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They can because they think they can.
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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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Death twitches my ear, live he says – I am coming.
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Time carries all things, even our wits, away.
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Fortune favors the bold.
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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.
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I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
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