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
men desire every-man
Every man makes a god of his own desire
men arms firsts
Sing in me, muse, of arms and a man, who first from the shores of Troy.
wisdom men
Each man is led by his own liking.
latin philosophical men
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
philosophical men ruins
What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
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.
pain men suffering
Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men
loyalty men motive
That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.
men accepted should
A libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen bya man who should never have attempted it.
fate overcome patience whatever
Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it.
They are able because they think they are able.
english-poet man
One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.
fates
Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.
age english-poet
Age carries all things away, even the mind.