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Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15, 70 BC–19 BC), known in English as Virgil or Vergil, is a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid, the last being an epic poem of twelve books that became the Roman Empire's national epic.

1 Sourced
- 1.1 Eclogues
- 1.2 The Aeneid
2 Attributed
3 External links

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Audacibus annue coeptis
- Look with favor upon a bold beginning.
- Georgics, Book I, Line 40

Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.
- Georgics, Book I, Line 133

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Eclogues

Latet anguis in herba.
- Translation: A snake lurks in the grass.
- Book III, line 93

Time bears away all things, even our minds.
- Book IX, line 51

Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
- Book IX, Line 64

Omnia vincit amor; et nos cedamus amori.
- Translation: Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.
- Book X, line 69

Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.

Trust one who has gone through it.

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The Aeneid

Each of us bears his own Hell.
- Book I, Line 743

Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentis.
- Translation: Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even bearing gifts.
- Book II, Line 49

Equo ne credite, Teucri.
- Translation: Trojans, do not trust the horse.
- Book II

Insanam uatem aspicies, quae rupe sub ima
fata canit foliisque notas et nomina mandat.
quaecumque in foliis descripsit carmina uirgo
digerit in numerum atque antro seclusa relinquit:
illa manent immota locis neque ab ordine cedunt.
uerum eadem, uerso tenuis cum cardine uentus
impulit et teneras turbauit ianua frondes,
numquam deinde cauo uolitantia prendere saxo
nec reuocare situs aut iungere carmina curat:
inconsulti abeunt sedemque odere Sibyllae.
- Translation: The mad prophetic Sibyl you shall find,
  Dark in a cave, and on a rock reclin'd.
  She sings the fates, and, in her frantic fits,
  The notes and names, inscrib'd, to leafs commits.
  What she commits to leafs, in order laid,
  Before the cavern's entrance are display'd:
  ...many not succeeding, most upbraid
  The madness of the visionary maid,
  And with loud curses leave the mystic shade."
- Book III, Lines 443-452

Hic tibi ne qua morae fuerint dispendia tanti,
quamuis increpitent socii et ui cursus in altum
uela uocet, possisque sinus implere secundos,
quin adeas uatem precibusque oracula poscas
ipsa canat uocemque uolens atque ora resoluat.
illa tibi Italiae populos uenturaque bella
et quo quemque modo fugiasque ferasque laborem
expediet, cursusque dabit uenerata secundos.
haec sunt quae nostra liceat te uoce moneri.
- Translation: Think it not loss of time a while to stay,
  Tho' thy companions chide thy long delay;
  Tho' summon'd to the seas, tho' pleasing gales
  Invite thy course, and stretch thy swelling sails:
  But beg the sacred priestess to relate
  With willing words, and not to write thy fate...
  She shall direct thy course, instruct thy mind,
  And teach thee how the happy shores to find.
  This is what Heav'n allows me to relate:
  Now part in peace; pursue thy better fate,
- Book III, Lines 453-461

Facilis descensus Averni:
Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;
Sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras.
Hoc opus, hic labor est.
- Translation: 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.
- Book VI, Line 126

Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.
- Translation: If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.
- Book VII, Line 312

Audentes fortuna iuvat
- Translation: Fortune favours the brave.
- Book X, Line 284

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Attributed

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.

possent quod posse videntur: Literally "they are able because they seem (are seen) to be able.
- They can conquer who believe they can.
- They can because they think they can.

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