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.
VIRGILThrough pain I’ve learned to comfort suffering men.
More Virgil Quotes
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All bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
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Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.
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As it spreads, the rumor gains strength.
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No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.
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She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.
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Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man’s mad desire become his god?
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Mind moves matter.
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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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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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They can because they think they can.
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The descent into Hell is easy.
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All things by nature are ready to get worse.
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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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A shifty, fickle object is woman, always.
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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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