Time carries all things, even our wits, away.
VIRGILLet us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
More Virgil Quotes
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Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.
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A shifty, fickle object is woman, always.
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Each of us bears his own Hell.
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All things by nature are ready to get worse.
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The noblest motive is the public good.
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No stranger to misfortune myself, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others.
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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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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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Time is flying never to return.
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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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Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.
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When gods are contrary they stand by no one.
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The greatest wealth is health.
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Fortune favors the bold.
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If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.
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Death twitches my ear, live he says – I am coming.
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They can because they think they can.
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Spare the meek, but subdue the arrogant.
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Let me rage before I die.
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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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She has a human face and as far as the groin she is a girl with lovely breasts, but below she is a monstrous sea creature, her womb full of wolves
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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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She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.
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The descent into Hell is easy.
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Fear reveals baseborn souls!
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No day shall erase you from the memory of time.
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