Virgil

Aeneid

Ancient influential 137 sayings

Sayings by Virgil

Tantane vos generis tenuit fiducia vestri?

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book I, line 132
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Sequiturque patrem non passibus aequis.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book II, line 724
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Haec olim meminisse iuvabit.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book I, line 203 (shorter version of a previous quote)
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Auri sacra fames quid non mortalia pectora cogis!

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book III, line 57
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Vi victa vis.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book II, line 192 (often cited as a proverb, but related to the Trojan Horse narrative)
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Mirabile dictu!

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book I, line 439
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Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book VII, line 312
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Hinc illae lacrimae.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book IV, line 413 (though more famously used by Terence)
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Numquam omnes hodie moriemur inulti.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book II, line 670
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Spes sibi quisque.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book XI, line 309
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Deus nobis haec otia fecit.

~39-38 BC — Eclogues, I, line 6
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Non canimus surdis; respondent omnia silvae.

~39-38 BC — Eclogues, X, line 8
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Mors et fugacem persequitur virum.

~29 BC — Georgics, Book III, line 68 (often paraphrased or altered)
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Macte nova virtute, puer; sic itur ad astra.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book IX, line 641
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Regina gravi iamdudum saucia cura.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book IV, line 1
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Furor arma ministrat.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book I, line 150
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Quo fata trahunt retrahuntque, sequamur.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book V, line 709
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Stat sua cuique dies; breve et irreparabile tempus omnibus est vitae.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book X, lines 467-468
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Love conquers all; let us too yield to love.

37 BCE — From Eclogue X
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Perhaps even these things will be pleasing to remember one day.

19 BCE — From the Aeneid, Book I, spoken by Aeneas to his men after shipwreck
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