Virgil
Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil /ˈvɜːrdʒᵻl/ in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. A number of minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, are sometimes attributed to him...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth15 October 70
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Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
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Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it.
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But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.
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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.
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As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
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Go on and increase in valor for this is the path to immortality.
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If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.
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What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.
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Is there so much anger in the minds of the gods?
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Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction
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They can conquer who belive they can.
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Look with favor upon a bold beginning.
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Live on in your blessings, your destiny's been won. But ours calls us on from one ordeal to the next.