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
fates
Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.
fate overcome patience whatever
Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it.
happiness fate feet
Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.
philosophical fate way
Fate will find a way.
fate mind causes
Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.
fate journey men
I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores Across the lands and waters he was battered beneath the violence of the high ones for the savage Juno's unforgetting anger.
future perhaps prove source
Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future pleasure.
conquers english-poet love surrender
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.
course death descend fortune run shade shall
I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me; and now my shade shall descend illustrious to the grave.
beauty enchanting trust
Trust not too much to an enchanting face.
dragged favorite pleasure
Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.
against attack beaten endures exposed fury hate man rock sea shower vast winds
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 are able because they think they are able.
english-poet man
One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.