Publius Vergilius Maro Quotes

Mantua brought me life, Calabria death; now Naples holds me: I sang of flocks and farms and heroes.

Blessed is he who has been able to win knowledge of the causes of things.

Toil conquered the world, unrelenting toil, and want that pinches when life is hard.

Sicilian Muses, let us sing a some what loftier strain. Not all do orchards please and the lowly tamarisks.

Believe one who has experienced it.

Fortune helps those who dare.

Women were ever things of many changing moods.

Rum our is of all pests the swiftest.

The gods thought otherwise.

Nothing can save the conquered but the knowledge that they cannot now be saved.

Whatever it may be, I fear the Greeks, even when bearing gifts.

They fell silent, every one, and each face was turned intently towards him. From high on the dais Aeneas, Troy’s Chieftain, began to speak.

No stranger to trouble myself, I am learning to help those who are in distress.

This is a tale of arms and of a man. Fated to be an exile, he was the first to sail from the land of Troy and reach Italy, at its Lavinian shore.

They succeed, because they think they can.