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.
VIRGILAll our sweetest hours fly fastest
More Virgil Quotes
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No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.
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Death twitches my ear, live he says – I am coming.
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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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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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Let me rage before I die.
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No stranger to misfortune myself, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others.
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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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A woman is an ever fickle and changeable thing.
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Time is flying never to return.
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Each of us bears his own Hell.
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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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As it spreads, the rumor gains strength.
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Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.
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She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.
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