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> [Easy is the descent to hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virgil/easy-is-the-descent-to-hell-all-night-long-all-day-the-doors-of-dark/)

[Virgil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virgil/)

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> [Oh you who are born of the gods, easy is the descent into Hell. The door of darkness stands open day and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virgil/oh-you-who-are-born-of-the-gods-easy-is-the-descent-into-hell-the/)

[Virgil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virgil/)

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> [Facilis decensus averni. The descent into hell is easy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virgil/facilis-decensus-averni-the-descent-into-hell-is-easy/)

[Virgil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virgil/)

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> [“The descent into Hell is easy”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virgil/the-descent-into-hell-is-easy/)

[Virgil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virgil/)

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## More by Virgil

> [We may be masters of our every lot By bearing it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virgil/we-may-be-masters-of-our-every-lot-by-bearing-it/)

[Virgil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virgil/)

> [“Facilis descensus Averni: noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras. hoc opus, hic labor est.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virgil/facilis-descensus-averni-noctes-atque-dies-patet-atri-ianua-ditis-sed/)

[Virgil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virgil/the-descent-to-the-infernal-regions-is-easy-enough-but-to-retrace-one/)

[Virgil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virgil/)

> [If I am unable to make the gods above relent, I shall move hell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virgil/if-i-am-unable-to-make-the-gods-above-relent-i-shall-move-hell/)

[Virgil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virgil/)

> [Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virgil/such-is-the-love-of-praise-so-great-the-anxiety-for-victory/)

[Virgil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virgil/)

> [“Spare the meek, but subdue the arrogant.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virgil/spare-the-meek-but-subdue-the-arrogant/)

[Virgil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virgil/)

> [We have to thank God for this retirement.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virgil/we-have-to-thank-god-for-this-retirement/)

[Virgil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virgil/and-why-the-winter-suns-so-rush-to-bathe-themselves-in-the-sea-and/)

[Virgil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virgil/)

> [“forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virgil/forsan-et-haec-olim-meminisse-iuvabit-and-perhaps-it-will-be-pleasing/)

[Virgil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virgil/)

> [“Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virgil/timeo-danaos-et-dona-ferentes/)

[Virgil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virgil/)

> [The Britons are quite separated from all the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virgil/the-britons-are-quite-separated-from-all-the-world/)

[Virgil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virgil/)

> [One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virgil/one-man-excels-in-eloquence-another-in-arms/)

[Virgil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virgil/but-the-danaan-princes-and-agamemnon-s-battalions-soon-as-they-saw/)

[Virgil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virgil/)

> [“What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virgil/what-a-tale-he-s-told-what-a-bitter-bowl-of-war-he-s-drunk-to-the/)

[Virgil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virgil/)

> [“Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virgil/non-ignora-mali-miseris-succurrere-disco/)

[Virgil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virgil/)

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