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Virgil Quotes About Time

But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.

Time flies never to be recalled.

Time is flying never to return.

All things deteriorate in time.

Time passes irrevocably.

Virgil Quotes About Resilience

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

Endure the present, and watch for better things.

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

More Quotes by Virgil

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.

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

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.

What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?

Every man makes a god of his own desire.

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

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

Age steals away all things, even the mind.

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.

Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.

Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

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

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.

They succeed, because they think they can.

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.

He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.

If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

They are able because they think they are able.

Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Passion and strife bow down the mind.

Trust not to much to appearances.

Every sound alarms.

Who can blind lover's eyes?

Hug the shore; let others try the deep.

Veiling truth in mystery.

Their rage supplies them with weapons.

They can conquer who believe they can.

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