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.
VIRGILLook with favour upon a bold beginning.
More Virgil Quotes
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Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.
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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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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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Fear reveals baseborn souls!
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If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.
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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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Each of us bears his own Hell.
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The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all.
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All things by nature are ready to get worse.
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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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Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man’s mad desire become his god?
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No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.
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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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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.
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