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
fate overcome patience whatever
Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it.
fates
Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.
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.
They are able because they think they are able.
english-poet man
One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.
age english-poet
Age carries all things away, even the mind.
air descent english-poet regions retrace
The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.
trace
Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.
ability cares man woman
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.
dragged favorite pleasure
Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.
english-poet time
But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.