Great Throughts Treasury

"Of which I was a great part."

"Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor"

"Oh, where the fields are! (expression for a longing to the country side)"

"One Life through all the immense creation runs… and in all substance is a single Soul."

"One man excels in eloquence, another in arms."

"Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it."

"Passion and shame torment him, and rage is mingled with his grief."

"Passion and strife bow down the mind."

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

"Perhaps it will be pleasing sometime to have remembered these things."

"Perhaps it will even please us to remember these things someday."

"Perhaps one day it will be pleasant to remember even these things."

"Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember."

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

"Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future pleasure."

"Perhaps, one day, remembering even these things will bring pleasure."

"Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances."

"Pity your sister- as a final kindness. When he has granted it, I shall repay my debt, and with full interest, by my death."

"Poor husband, what wild thought drives you to wear these weapons now? Where would you rush?"

"Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art."

"Praise a large domain, cultivate a small estate."

"Restless work conquers everything."

"Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low."

"Romans, never forget that government is your medium! Be this your art:-to practice men in habit of peace, generosity to the conquered, and firmness against aggressors."

"Rumor flies. She nourishes the poison in her veins"

"Rumor grows as it goes."

"Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion. Small at first and in fear, she soon rises to heaven, Walks upon land and hides her head in the clouds."

"She acquires momentum as she advances."

"She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire."

"Small in number, but their valor tried in war, and glowing."

"So great a task it was to found the Roman race."

"Some trickery is here. Trojans, do not trust in the horse. Whatever it may be, I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts."

"Spare the buried."

"Spare the meek, but subdue the arrogant"

"Stay away, you uninitiated."

"Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime."

"Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor—the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its very activity and gains new strength by its movements; small at first through fear, it soon raises itself aloft and sweeps onward along the earth. Yet its head reaches the clouds. A huge and horrid monster covered with many feathers: and for every plume a sharp eye, for every pinion a biting tongue. Everywhere its voices sound, to everything its ears are open."

"Success feeds them; they can, because it seems they can"

"Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory."

"Tears are due to human misery, and human sufferings touch the mind."

"Tears are due to human misery."

"Tell us all things from the first beginning: Grecian guile, your people's trials, and then your journeyings."

"That doesn't seem like what a neighborhood would want to be known for."

"The accursed hunger for gold."

"The circling year completes its months since we entombed in earth the bones and remnants of my godlike father. Unless I err, that anniversary is here, the day that I shall always keep in grief and honor."

"The cursed hunger for gold."

"The descent into Hell is easy"

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

"The dewy night unrolls a heaven thickly jeweled with sparkling stars"

"The divinity loves the odd number (about the triad)."