Virgil

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

Virgil

Fury itself supplies arms.

Virgil

Good speed to your youthful valor, boy! So shall you scale the stars!

Virgil

Had I a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron and a chest of brass, I could not tell all the forms of crime, could not name all the types of punishment.

Virgil

Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.

Virgil

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

Virgil

Here are the tears of things; mortality touches the heart.

Virgil

Here, too, the honorable finds its due and there are tears for passing things; here, too, things mortal touch the mind.

Virgil

Hug the shore; let others try the deep.

Virgil

I cannot bear a mother’s tears.

Virgil