Virgil

Virgil (c. 70-19 BCE)

"Since Fortune's got the upper hand,
let's follow her where she calls and change course."

• From The Aeneid (Book V) by Virgil, translated by Robert Fagles (Penguin Classics, 2010).

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Virgil

Virgil (Roman poet, 70-19 BCE)

"How each man weaves
his web will bring him to glory or to grief."

• From The Aeneid (Book X) by Virgil, translated by Robert Fagles (Penguin Classics, 2010).

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Virgil

Virgil (Roman poet, 70-19 BCE)

"Come,
with the first light of day, our spirits high,
let's explore the land."

• From The Aeneid by Virgil, translated by Robert Fagles (Penguin Classics, 2010).

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Virgil

Virgil (70-19 CE)

"Whatever Fortune sends, we master it all
by bearing it all, we must!"

• From Virgil's The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles (Penguin Classics edition, 2010.

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Virgil

Virgil (Roman poet, 70-19 BCE)

"Rumor, quicksilver afoot
and swift on the wing, a monster, horriffic, huge
and under every feather on her body--what a marvel--
an eye that never sleeps and as many tongues as eyes
and as many raucous mouths and ears pricked up for news."

• From Virgil's The Aeneid (Book four), translated by Robert Fagles (Penguin Classics, 2010)

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Virgil

Virgil (Roman Poet, 70-19 BCE)

"Night and day the gates of shadowy Death stand open wide,
but to retrace your steps, to climb back to the upper air--
there the struggle, there the labor lies."

• From The Aeneid by Virgil, translated by Robert Fagles (Penguin Classics edition).

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Virgil

Virgil (79-19 BCE)

"Fear exposes the lowborn man at once."

• From The Aeneid by Virgil, translated by Robert Fagles (Penguin Books edition).

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Virgil

Virgil (70-19 BCE)

"The Harpies...no monster on earth more cruel,
no scourge more savage, no wrath of the gods has
ever raised its head from the Styx's waters.
The faces of girls, but birds! A loathsome ooze
discharges from their bellies, talons for hands,
their jaws deathly white with a hunger never sated."

• From The Aeneid (Book III, approximately line 260) by Virgil, translated by Robert Fagles (Penguin Books edition).

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Virgil

Virgil (Roman Poet, 70-19 BCE)

"If you have no use for humankind and mortal armor,
at least respect the gods.  They know right from wrong.
They don't forget."

• From The Aeneid (Book I, approx. line 650) by Virgil, translated by Robert Fagles.

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