Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you…

We may be masters of our every lot By bearing it.

— Virgil

“Facilis descensus Averni: noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras. hoc opus, hic labor est.”

— 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

If I am unable to make the gods above relent, I shall move hell.

— Virgil

Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.

— Virgil

“Spare the meek, but subdue the arrogant.”

— Virgil

We have to thank God for this retirement.

— Virgil

“..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl...”

— Virgil

“forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day”

— Virgil

“Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes”

— Virgil

The Britons are quite separated from all the world.

— Virgil

One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.

— Virgil

“But the Danaan princes and Agamemnon’s battalions, soon as they saw the man and his arms flashing amid the glom, trembled with mighty fear;…

— Virgil

“What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs.”

— Virgil

“Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco.”

— Virgil