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Human limitations2 quotes
We are not all capable of everything. — Virgil · 30 BCNot every soil can bear all things. — Virgil · 29 BCTime2 quotes
But meanwhile it is flying, irretrievable time is flying. — Virgil · 29 BCTime bears away all things, even our minds. — Virgil · 30 BCAttitude and mindset1 quote
Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious. — Virgil · 30 BCBeauty1 quote
Don't bank too much on your complexion, lovely boy. — Virgil · 37 BCBeauty fades1 quote
Don't bank too much on your complexion, lovely boy. — Virgil · 37 BCBravery1 quote
Fortune favors the brave. — Virgil · 19 BCCourage1 quote
Fortune favors the brave. — Virgil · 19 BCDanger1 quote
A snake lurks in the grass. — Virgil · 30 BCEffects of time1 quote
Time bears away all things, even our minds. — Virgil · 30 BCEvening1 quote
Look over there-smoke rises already from the rooftops
And longer fall the shadows cast by the mountain heights. — Virgil · 37 BCFarming1 quote
O farmers, pray that your summers be wet and your winters clear. — Virgil · 29 BCFortune favors the bold1 quote
Fortune favors the brave. — Virgil · 19 BCGood looks1 quote
Don't bank too much on your complexion, lovely boy. — Virgil · 37 BCGreed1 quote
To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed craving for gold! — Virgil · 19 BCHomecoming1 quote
We sighted, far away, dim hills and a low coast-line-Italy.
Achates was the first to hail, "Italy! Italy!" my comrades echoed in cheerful greeting. — Virgil · 19 BCHuman nature1 quote
To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed craving for gold! — Virgil · 19 BCItaly1 quote
We sighted, far away, dim hills and a low coast-line-Italy.
Achates was the first to hail, "Italy! Italy!" my comrades echoed in cheerful greeting. — Virgil · 19 BCLove1 quote
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. — Virgil · 37 BCNature of time1 quote
Time is flying never to return. — Virgil · 29 BCNature of women1 quote
A fickle and changeable thing always is woman. — Virgil · 19 BCNew beginnings1 quote
Look with favor upon a bold beginning. — Virgil · 29 BCNight1 quote
Night came down, and enfolded the earth in her dusky wings. — Virgil · 19 BCNightfall1 quote
Look over there-smoke rises already from the rooftops
And longer fall the shadows cast by the mountain heights. — Virgil · 37 BCPassage of time1 quote
But meanwhile it is flying, irretrievable time is flying. — Virgil · 29 BCPositive attitude1 quote
Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious. — Virgil · 30 BCPower of love1 quote
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. — Virgil · 37 BCPractice1 quote
Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art. — Virgil · 29 BCRelentlessness of time1 quote
But meanwhile it is flying, irretrievable time is flying. — Virgil · 29 BCRural life1 quote
May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland. — Virgil · 29 BCTaking risks1 quote
Look with favor upon a bold beginning. — Virgil · 29 BC