Fear reveals baseborn souls!
VIRGILIt 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.
More Virgil Quotes
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Look with favour upon a bold beginning.
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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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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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When gods are contrary they stand by no one.
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Time carries all things, even our wits, away.
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All bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
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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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The descent into Hell is easy.
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If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.
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A shifty, fickle object is woman, always.
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Trust one who has gone through it.
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No stranger to misfortune myself, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others.
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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.
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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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Each of us bears his own Hell.
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