The medicine increases the disease.
- Virgil

I shudder when relating it.
- Virgil

None but himself can be his parallel.
- Virgil

Trust one who has gone through it.
- Virgil

We can’t all do everything.
- Virgil

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

The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way.
- Virgil

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

Here’s Death! twitching my ear: “Live,” says he, “for I’m coming.
- Virgil

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

Trust not to much to appearances.
- Virgil

For they can conquer who believe they can.
- Virgil

The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.
- Virgil

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

The goose gabbles amid the melodious swans.
- Virgil

Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?
- Virgil

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

Look with favour upon a bold beginning.
- Virgil

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.
- Virgil

Trust one who has tried.
- Virgil

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

Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
- Virgil

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

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.
- Virgil

One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.
- Virgil

Praise a large domain, cultivate a small estate.
- Virgil

She acquires momentum as she advances.
- Virgil

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

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

Romans, never forget that government is your medium! Be this your art:-to practice men in habit of peace, generosity to the conquered, and firmness against aggressors.
- Virgil

All our sweetest hours fly fastest.
- Virgil

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
- Virgil

Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.
- Virgil

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

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
- Virgil

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

Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.
- Virgil

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

To have died once is enough.
- Virgil

You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.
- Virgil

A fault is fostered by concealment.
- Virgil

Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.
- Virgil

Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.
- Virgil

Time is flying, never to return.
- Virgil

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

- Virgil

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

A snake lurks in the grass.
- Virgil

Knowing sorrow well, I learn to succor the distressed.
- Virgil

Time bears away all things.
- Virgil

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.
- Virgil

Mind moves matter.
- Virgil

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

Age steals away all things, even the mind.
- Virgil