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.
VIRGILHappy is the man who has learned the causes of things.
More Virgil Quotes
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The descent into Hell is easy.
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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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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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Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.
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The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all.
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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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Fortune favors the bold.
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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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All things by nature are ready to get worse.
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I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
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Friend, have the courage To care little for wealth, and shape yourself, You too, to merit godhead
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Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
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Mind moves matter.
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No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.
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