Virgil Quotes

Superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est.

How fortunate, both at once!
If my songs have any power, the day will never dawn
that wipes you from the memory of the ages, not while
the house of Aeneas stands by the Capitol's rock unshaken,
not while the Roman Father rules the world.

Quae te dementia cepit!

Fortunati ambo! si quid mea carmina possunt, Nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo,
Dum domus Aeneae Capitoli immobile saxum
Accolet imperiumque pater Romanus habebit.

Begin, baby boy, to recognize your mother with a smile.

The gates of hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labor lies.

Forsan miseros meliora sequentur.

Hos ego versiculos feci, tulit alter honores.

Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.

Procul, O procul este, profani!

Omnia fert aetas, animum quoque.

Furens quid Femina possit.

Volvitur Euryalus leto, pulchrosque per artus
It cruor inque umeros cervix conlapsa recumbit:
Purpureus veluti cum flos succisus aratro
Languescit moriens; lassove papavera collo
Demisere caput, pluvia cum forte gravantur.

Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram,
Perque domos Ditis vacuas et inania regna.

Even here, merit will have its true reward...
even here, the world is a world of tears
and the burdens of mortality touch the heart.