Great Throughts Treasury

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Virgil, also Vergil, fully Publius Vergilius Maro NULL

Roman Poet known for the epic "Aeneid"

"Time bears away all things, even our minds."

"Time flies never to be recalled."

"Time is flying never to return."

"Time passes irrevocably."

"Time speeds away irretrievably"

"To have died once is enough."

"To spare the vanquished, and subdue the proud."

"To whisper insidious accusations in the ear of the mob."

"Too happy would you be, did ye but know your own advantages!"

"Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts."

"Trust not to much to appearances."

"Trust not too much to an enchanting face."

"Trust not too much to appearances."

"Trust one who has gone through it."

"Trust one who has tried."

"Trust the expert."

"Unspeakable, queen, are the pains you command me to renew."

"Until an awful hunger and your wrong in slaughtering my sisters has compelled your jaws to gnaw as food your very tables."

"Veiling truth in mystery."

"Vice lives and thrives best by concealment."

"Want of pluck shows want of blood."

"Wars, horrid wars."

"We are headed in the right direction, but we will not be satisfied until everyone is successful,"

"We are not all capable of everything."

"We bear each one our own destiny."

"We cannot all do all things."

"We can't all do everything."

"We can't raise our prices because we would lose our customers... Our prices have stayed the same, but the gas has doubled in price. If we starve to death, who will care?"

"We have to thank God for this retirement."

"We journey on in life through varied hazards and misfortunes."

"We may be masters of our every lot: By bearing it."

"What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another."

"What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?"

"Whatever it be, every fortune is to be overcome by bearing it."

"Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts."

"Whatever may be the issue we shall share one common danger, one safety."

"Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it."

"When gods are contrary they stand by no one."

"When I saw her I as undone."

"When I was a kid, the Hispanics here all just about knew each other, ... Now there are hundreds of families. ... Until recently, we were pretty much invisible."

"When the first is plucked, a second will not be wanting."

"Wherever the fates lead us let us follow."

"Wherever the Fates, in their ebb and flow, lead, let us follow."

"Who can blind lover's eyes?"

"Whither art thou rushing to destruction?"

"Who can deceive a lover?"

"Who could tell such a story with dry eyes?"

"Why are you mangling me, Aeneas? Spare my body. I am buried here. Do spare the profanation of your pious hands. I am no stranger to you; I am Trojan. The blood you see does not flow from a stem. Flee from these cruel lands, this greedy shore, for I am Polydorus; here an iron harvest of lances covered my pierced body."

"Will Mars be always in your windy tongue and in your flying feet?"

"Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly."