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Virgil Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“The seeds of life— fiery is their force, divine their birth, but they are weighed down by the bodies’ ills or dulled by earthly limbs and flesh that’s born for death.”
— Virgil, The Aeneid: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Tagged: Life, Death, humanity, Earth, one perfect sentence, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“How blind men's minds to their fate and what the future holds, how blind to limits when fortune lifts men high.”
— Virgil, The Aeneid (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Life
“Spare the defeated, break the proud in war.”
— Virgil, The Aeneid (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Life
“Unrolling the scroll of fate to reveal its darkest secrets.”
— Virgil, The Aeneid
Tagged: Life
“Call it cunning or courage; who would ask in war?”
— Virgil, The Aeneid
Tagged: Life, Courage, War, Cunning
“Wars and a man I sing— an exile driven on by Fate, he was the first to flee the coast of Troy, destined to reach Lavinian shores and Italian soil, yet many blows he took on land and sea from the gods above— thanks to cruel Juno’s relentless rage— and many losses he bore in battle too, before he could found a city, bring his gods to Latium, source of the Latin race, the Alban lords and the high walls of Rome.”
— Virgil, The Aeneid (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Tagged: first lines of books
“Her words were ended. But Aeneas, warned by Jove, held still his eyes; he struggled, pressed care back within his breast. With halting words he answers her at last: “I never shall deny what you deserve, the kindnesses that you could tell; I never shall regret remembering Elissa for as long as I remember my own self, as long as breath is king over these limbs. I’ll speak brief words that fit the case. I never hoped to hide—do not imagine that—my flight; I am not furtive. I have never held the wedding torches as a husband; I have never entered into such agreements. If fate had granted me to guide my life   460 by my own auspices and to unravel my troubles with unhampered will, then I should cherish first the town of Troy, the sweet remains of my own people and the tall rooftops of Priam would remain, my hand would plant again a second Pergamus for my defeated men. But now Grynean Apollo’s oracles would have me seize great Italy, the Lycian prophecies tell me of Italy: there is my love,  there is my homeland.”
— Virgil, The Aeneid
Tagged: Duty, Love
“The queen stopped but he, warned by Jupiter now, his gaze held steady, fought to master the torment in his heart. At last he ventured a few words: “I… you have done me so many kindnesses, and you could count them all. I shall never deny what you deserve, my queen, never regret my memories of Dido, not while I can recall myself and draw the breath of life. 420 I’ll state my case in a few words. I never dreamed I’d keep my flight a secret. Don’t imagine that. Nor did I once extend a bridegroom’s torch or enter into a marriage pact with you. If the Fates had left me free to live my life, to arrange my own affairs of my own free will, Troy is the city, first of all, that I’d safeguard, Troy and all that’s left of my people whom I cherish. The grand palace of Priam would stand once more, with my own hands I would fortify a second Troy 430 to house my Trojans in defeat. But not now. Grynean Apollo’s oracle says that I must seize on Italy’s noble land, his Lycian lots say ‘Italy!’ There lies my love, there lies my homeland now. ”
— Virgil, The Aeneid
Tagged: Duty
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