Quotations From VIRGIL [PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO]

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• 1.

  Love conquers everything [Amor vincit omnia]: let us, too, yield to love.

  Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70-19 B.C.), Roman poet. Gallus, in Eclogues, no. 10, l. 69 (37 B.C.), trans. by Kate Hughes (1995).
  
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• 2.

  Happy the man who has been able to know the reasons for things.

  Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70-19 B.C.), Roman poet. Georgics, bk. 2, l. 490 (19 B.C.), trans. by Kate Hughes (1995). Thought to refer to the poet and philosopher Lucretius.
  
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  Old age grows cold to love.

  Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70-19 B.C.), Roman poet. Georgics, bk. 3, l. 97 (29 B.C.), trans. by Kate Hughes (1995).
  
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• 4.

  Time is flying, never to return.

  Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70-19 B.C.), Roman poet. Georgics, bk. 3, l. 284 (29 B.C.). The Latin, fugit irreparabile tempus, is usually quoted tempus fugit.
  
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• 5.

  Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

  Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70-19 B.C.), Roman poet. Eclogues, no. 9, l. 50 (37 B.C.).
• 6.

  There's a snake lurking in the grass.

  Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70-19 B.C.), Roman poet. Eclogues, no. 3, l. 93 (37 B.C.).
  
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• 7.

  Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.

  Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70-19 B.C.), Roman poet. Dido, Queen of Carthage, in Aeneid, bk. 1.
• 8.

  Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.

  Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70-19 B.C.), Roman poet. Aeneid, bk. 1, l. 203. Addressed to his men, referring to the difficulties of the journey to Latium.
  
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• 9.

  From a single crime know the nation.

  Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70-19 B.C.), Roman poet. Aeneid, bk. 2, l. 65.
• 10.

  The gods thought otherwise.

  Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70-19 B.C.), Roman poet. Aeneid, bk. 2, l. 428 (19 B.C.).