Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.

More quotes from Virgil

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

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Trust one who has tried.

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Time is flying never to return.

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I shudder when relating it.

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Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.

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Fortune sides with him who dares.

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

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We can’t all do everything.

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

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He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.

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

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All our sweetest hours fly fastest.

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Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.

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Endure the present, and watch for better things.

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As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

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Mind moves matter.

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Fortune favours the bold.

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Their rage supplies them with weapons.

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Love conquers all.

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Want of pluck shows want of blood.

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Fury itself supplies arms.

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To have died once is enough.

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They succeed, because they think they can.

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If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.

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A fault is fostered by concealment.

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Each of us bears his own Hell.

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One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.

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Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.

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Fate will find a way.

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What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

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Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.

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

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The medicine increases the disease.

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All things deteriorate in time.

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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

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Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

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There’s a snake lurking in the grass.

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Age steals away all things, even the mind.

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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

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They can conquer who believe they can.

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Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

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Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

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Trust not to much to appearances.

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What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?

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If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.

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

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

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

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Hug the shore; let others try the deep.

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The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.

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Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.

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Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

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He enters the port with a full sail.

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Time passes irrevocably.

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

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But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.

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None but himself can be his parallel.

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Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

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From one learn all.

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

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Passion and strife bow down the mind.

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In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

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I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

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Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.

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Every man makes a god of his own desire.

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They can because they think they can.

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It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – there’s the rub, the task.

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Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

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Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.

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Veiling truth in mystery.

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Every sound alarms.

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They are able because they think they are able.

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Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

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Time flies never to be recalled.

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

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There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

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Who can blind lover’s eyes?

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