The descent to hell is easy, the black gates stand open night and day, but to climb back up again to retrace ones steps to the upper air there in lies the laborious task, the toil.

Virgil

They can do all because they think they can. by Virgil

They can do all because they think they can.

confidence can-do thinking

If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell. by Virgil

If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.

hell heaven moving

Fortune sides with he who dares by Virgil

Fortune sides with he who dares

dare fortune sides

Easy is the descent to hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the path; to come out again to the sweet air of Heaven - there is the task, there is the burden.

dark sweet night

Endure the present, and watch for better things. by Virgil

Endure the present, and watch for better things.

endure watches

Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.

fate causes mind

Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships. by Virgil

Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.

broken-heart breakup wise

Love conquers all things. by Virgil

Love conquers all things.

valentine inspirational love

Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is. by Virgil

Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is.

amor quitting love

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

ruins philosophical men

Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori. by Virgil

Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori.

amor love-conquers-all yield

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched. by Virgil

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

wretched aids sorrow

Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold. by Virgil

Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.

favors fortune latin

No day shall erase you from the memory of time by Virgil

No day shall erase you from the memory of time

paganism september-11 memories

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by pra... by Virgil

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.

philosophical prayer thinking

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness. by Virgil

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.

endure endurance

From a single crime know the nation. by Virgil

From a single crime know the nation.

crime-and-criminals crime knows

Time meanwhile is flying, flying beyond recall. by Virgil

Time meanwhile is flying, flying beyond recall.

time-flies philosophical

Facilis decensus averni. The descent into hell is easy. by Virgil

Facilis decensus averni. The descent into hell is easy.

descent hell easy

Persistent work triumphs. by Virgil

Persistent work triumphs.

persistent triumph inspirational