Great Throughts Treasury

"The faithful Achates; phrase often applied to a friend or a relative who remains faithful at all events — Achates was Aeneas' most faithful friend."

"The Fates oppose."

"The Fates will find a way."

"The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind."

"The food is awful, it's too cold, and every time you ask somebody anything, the answer is the same: 'We're working on it,'"

"The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies."

"The goddess was discovered by her gait."

"The gods thought otherwise."

"The goose gabbles amid the melodious swans."

"The greatest wealth is health"

"The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way."

"The hunger is a bad adviser."

"The irreclaimable time flies."

"The irrevocable time flees."

"The leader of the deed was a woman."

"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."

"The man you seek is here. I stand before you, Trojan Aeneas, torn from Libyan waves. O you who were alone in taking pity on the unutterable trials of Troy, who welcome us as allies to your city and home- a remnant left by Greeks, harassed by all disasters known on land and sea."

"The medicine increases the disease."

"The mind moves the matter."

"The mind of man is ignorant of fate and future destiny, and cannot keep within due bounds when elated by prosperity."

"The noblest motive is the public good."

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

"The rude rabble are enraged; now firebrands and stones fly."

"The rumor grows while it has it."

"The spirit within nourishes, and mind instilled throughout the living parts activates the whole mass and mingles with the vast frame."

"The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions."

"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."

"Their own death accompanies the wound they inflict."

"Their rage supplies them with weapons."

"Then endure for a while, and live for a happier day!"

"Then Heaven, the Father Almighty, comes down in fruitful showers into the lap of his joyous spouse, and his might, with her mighty frame commingling, nurtures all growths."

"There are two gates of Sleep: the one is said to be of horn, through it an easy exit is given to true Shades; the other is made of polished ivory, perfect glittering, but through that way the Spirits send false dreams into the world above. And here Anchises, when he is done with words, accompanies the Sibyl and his son together; and he sends them through the gate of ivory."

"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. Even virtue is more fair when it appears in a beautiful person."

"There is no rescue in war."

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

"There's a snake lurking in the grass."

"They are able because they think they are able."

"They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence."

"They can because they think they can."

"They keep out of the hives the drones, an indolent bunch."

"They succeed, because they think they can."

"They were right. They didn't lie."

"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."

"This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime."

"This shall be thy work: to impose conditions of peace, to spare the lowly and to overthrow the proud."

"Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men"

"Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde."

"Thus I knew that pups are like dogs, and kids like goats; so I used to compare great things with small."

"Thus shall you go to the stars."

"Time bears all away, even memory"