Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
VIRGILLet us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
More Virgil Quotes
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Death twitches my ear, live he says – I am coming.
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Mind moves matter.
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No day shall erase you from the memory of time.
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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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The dank night is sweeping down from the sky and the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.
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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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Each of us bears his own Hell.
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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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Time passes irrevocably.
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Spare the meek, but subdue the arrogant.
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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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Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.
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No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.
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Time carries all things, even our wits, away.
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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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