Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance. Virgil More Quotes by Virgil More Quotes From Virgil Womankind Is ever a fickle and a changeful thing. Virgil fickle women Rumor goes forth at once, Rumor than whom No other speedier evil thing exists; She thrives by rapid movement, and acquires Strength as she goes; small at the first from fear, She presently uplifts herself aloft, And stalks upon the ground and hides her head Among the clouds. Virgil uplifting evil clouds A fault is fostered by concealment. Virgil concealment philosophical faults Even virtue is fairer in a fair body. Virgil attractiveness virtue body These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust. Virgil passion dust death If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong. Virgil arms demise race Who can blind lover's eyes? Virgil philosophical lovers eye Every man makes a god of his own desire Virgil every-man desire men Each draws to his best-loved. Virgil draws love We can't all do everything. Virgil philosophical He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas Virgil learning able causes Their rage supplies them with weapons. Virgil philosophical rage weapons O you who have borne even heavier things, to these too, God will grant an end! Virgil gods-will grants ends In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth. Virgil and-love sorrow heart Mantua gave me birth, Calabri snatched me away, now Parthenope holds me; I sang of shepherds, pastures, and heroes. -Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces Virgil shepherds birth hero And, just for good measure, here are a handful of runners up: Virgil land summer water Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth. Virgil proposal philosophical youth Time is flying never to return. Virgil philosophical flying reality If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell. Virgil hell heaven moving Sing in me, muse, of arms and a man, who first from the shores of Troy. Virgil arms men firsts
