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Famous Virgil Quotes
“Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.”
“A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever.”
Source: Virgil: Georgics ; Aeneid I-VI. Eclogues
“Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.”
Source: Virgil
“The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.”
“The accursed hunger for gold.”
Source: Vergilius
“Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth.”
“That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.”
Source: The Works of Virgil, Translated Into English Verse by John Dryden
“Sing in me, muse, of arms and a man, who first from the shores of Troy.”
“Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction”