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Trust not too much to appearances.

They can conquer who believe they can.

Time is flying never to return.

No day shall erase you from the memory of time

Veiling truth in mystery.

They can because they think they can.

Endure and preserve yourselves for better things.

The greatest wealth is health

Love conquers all.

Perhaps someday it will be pleasant to remember even this.

The signs of the old flame, I know them well.I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me downo...

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the dank night is sweeping down from the skyand the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.

Every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these thing...

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Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid: Books 1-6

..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the seaand what slows down the nights to a ...

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The goose gabbles amid the melodious swans.

Each of us bears his own Hell.

He utters empty words he utters sound without mind.

Fear betrays unworthy souls.

Fortune helps the brave.

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

The hour is ripe and yonder lies the way.

I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.

Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.

They succeed, because they think they can.

They are able because they think they are able.

Praise a large domain cultivate a small estate.

The flocks fear the wolf the crops the storm and the trees the wind.

Fortune sides with him who dares.

Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do?

To have died once is enough.

Knowing sorrow well I learn to succor the distressed.

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Facilis descensus Averno:Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;Sed revocare gradium superasque ev...

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...She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

The gates of hell are open night and day;Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:But to return, and ...

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The Aeneid

Too happy would you be did ye but know your own advantages!

The seeds of life - fiery is their force, divine their birth, but they are weighed down by the bodie...

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The Aeneid

Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?

Death's brother, sleep.

Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC)The only hope for the doomed, is no...

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The Aeneid

What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs.

The Aeneid

They are able who think they are able.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

Let us go singing as far as we go the road will be less tedious.

For they can conquer who believe they can.

Time flies never to be recalled.

Omnia vincit amor" - "Love conquers all

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

Time bears away all things.

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb bac...

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Love conquers all. Let Love then smile at our defeat.

Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

All our sweetest hours fly fastest.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

Time passes irrevocably.

Death twitches my ear;'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming.

Trust one who has tried.

Happy [is] the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear inexorab...

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Virgil

Poet

Born: 0070-01-01 BC

Died: 0019-01-01 BC

Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC), known in English as Virgil or Vergil, was a Roman poet, the author of the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid, the last being an epic poem of twelve books that became the Roman Empire's national epic.More