About Author : Publius Vergilius Maro, later called Virgilius, and known in English as Virgil or Vergil, was a classical Roman poet. He was the author of epics in three modes: the Bucolics (or Eclogues), the Georgics and the substantially completed Aeneid, the last being an epic poem in the heroic mode, which comprised twelve books (as opposed to 24 in each of the epic poems by Homer) and became the Roman Empire’s national epic.
Virgil Sayings and Quotes
Do not trust the horse Trojans Whatever it is I fear the Greeks even though they bring gifts.
Nunc scio quit sit amor.
Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods Trojan son of Anchises easy is the descent to Hell the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above that is work that is labor.
Perhaps even these things one day will be pleasing to remember.
Lat. Now I know what love is.
Latet anguis in herba. There’s a snake hidden in the grass.
This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
The gates of hell are open night and day Smooth the descent and easy the way.
All these souls after they have passed away a thousand years are summoned by the divine ones in great array to the lethean river. In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife and re-visit the vaulted realms of the world willing to return again into living bodies.
Possunt quia posse videntur. They can because they think they can from The Aeneid.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit Perhaps it will be pleasing sometime to have remembered these things from The Aeneid
They are able because they think they are able.
I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.
Love begets love love knows no rules this is the same for all.
Love conquers all things let us too surrender to Love.
Audentis Fortuna iuvat. Fortune assists the bold also Fortune favors the bold.
Each man is led by his own liking.
Look with favour upon a bold beginning.
Death’s brother Sleep.
Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.
In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene.
Each of us bears his own Hell.
Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
They can do all because they think they can.
They can conquer who believe they can.
O tyrant love to what do you not drive the hearts of men.
Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.
Trust one who has gone through it.
A snake lurks in the grass.
Whatever it is I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.
Yield not to evils but attack all the more boldly.
Fortune favors the brave.
It is easy to go down into Hell night and day the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again to retrace one’s steps to the upper air there’s the rub the task.
Let us go singing as far as we go the road will be less tedious.
I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.