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
philosophical all-things
All things deteriorate in time.
prayer philosophical thinking
Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.
philosophical faults concealment
A fault is fostered by concealment.
philosophical snakes grass
There's a snake lurking in the grass.
philosophical time-flies
Time flies never to be recalled.
philosophical fate way
Fate will find a way.
philosophical example despise
From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.
philosophical strife should
There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
philosophical love-is knows
Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all.
philosophical one-day remember
Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.
philosophical men ruins
What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
beautiful philosophical virtue
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
philosophical time-passes
Time passes irrevocably.
love anxiety victory
Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.