The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent and easy is the way.
VIRGILSpare the meek, but subdue the arrogant.
More Virgil Quotes
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All bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
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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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A shifty, fickle object is woman, always.
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The noblest motive is the public good.
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No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.
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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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Fortune sides with him who dares.
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Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
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Death twitches my ear, live he says – I am coming.
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Through pain I’ve learned to comfort suffering men.
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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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Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.
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Fear reveals baseborn souls!
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Time carries all things, even our wits, away.
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