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.
VIRGILMaybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.
More Virgil Quotes
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No benefits can be expected from war.
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Time is flying never to return.
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Fortune sides with him who dares.
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Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
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Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.
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Death twitches my ear, live he says – I am coming.
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Let me rage before I die.
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Fear reveals baseborn souls!
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When gods are contrary they stand by no one.
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No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.
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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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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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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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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
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A woman is an ever fickle and changeable thing.
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