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.
VIRGILThe noblest motive is the public good.
More Virgil Quotes
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Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
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All things by nature are ready to get worse.
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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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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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Fortune sides with him who dares.
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She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.
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As it spreads, the rumor gains strength.
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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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Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.
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Mind moves matter.
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Through pain I’ve learned to comfort suffering men.
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The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent and easy is the way.
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No day shall erase you from the memory of time.
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If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.
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I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
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