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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Passion and strife bow down the mind
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These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust.
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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.
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Passion and shame torment him, and rage is mingled with his grief.
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Hopefully this sort of movie can provide an idea of inspiration that might allow (students) to go into those areas where they find a passion and to go after it with heart.
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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.
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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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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.
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Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future pleasure.
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Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.