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.
VIRGILYour descendants shall gather your fruits.
More Virgil Quotes
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All our sweetest hours fly fastest
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No stranger to misfortune myself, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others.
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Let me rage before I die.
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A woman is an ever fickle and changeable thing.
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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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If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.
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No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.
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Look with favour upon a bold beginning.
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Time carries all things, even our wits, away.
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Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
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The greatest wealth is health.
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She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.
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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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They can because they think they can.
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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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