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Virgil

115 quotes

• “Parvis componere magna.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Publius Vergilius Maro (la), Virgílio (pt)

• “O formose puer, nimium ne crede colori.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Virgílio (pt)

• “Trahit sua quemque voluptas.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Publius Vergilius Maro (la), Virgílio (pt)

• “Quae te dementia cepit!”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Nunc omnis ager, nunc omnis parturit arbor; Nunc frondent sylvae, nunc formosissimus annus.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Latet anguis in herba.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Publius Vergilius Maro (la), Virgílio (pt)

• “Magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Virgílio (pt)

• “Incipe, parve puer, risu cognoscere matrem.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Nunc scio quid sit Amor.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Virgílio (pt)

• “Non omnia possumus omnes.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Publius Vergilius Maro (la), Virgílio (pt)

• “Carpent tua poma nepotes.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Virgílio (pt)

• “Omnia fert aetas, animum quoque.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Publius Vergilius Maro (la), Virgílio (pt)

• “Cantantes licet usque (minus via laedit) eamus.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Publius Vergilius Maro (la), Virgílio (pt)

• “Omnia vincit Amor; et nos cedamus Amori.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Publius Vergilius Maro (la), Virgílio (pt)

• “Audacibus annue coeptis.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Publius Vergilius Maro (la)

• “Umida solstitia atque hiemes orate serenas, agricolae.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Virgílio (pt)

• “Ut varias usus meditando extunderet artis paulatim.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Publius Vergilius Maro (la), Virgílio (pt)

• “Labor omnia vicit improbus et duris urgens in rebus egestas.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “In primis venerare Deos.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Adeo in teneris consuescere multum est.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Compare: "Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined." Alexander Pope, Moral Essays: Epistle I (1734), line 150.

  Also quoted by: Virgílio (pt)

• “O fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint Agricolas, quibus ipsa, procul discordibus armis, Fundit humo facilem victum justissima tellus!”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Rura mihi et rigui placeant in vallibus amnes, Flumina amem sylvasque inglorius.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Virgílio (pt)

• “Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Publius Vergilius Maro (la), Virgílio (pt)

• “Optima quaeque dies miseris mortalibus aevi Prima fugit; subeunt morbi tristisque senectus Et labor, et durae rapit inclementia mortis.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Amor omnibus idem.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Compare Poor Richard's maxim of 1748: "Lost Time is never found again.

  Also quoted by: Publius Vergilius Maro (la)

• “Alitur vitium, vivitque tegendo.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Si parva licet componere magnis.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Publius Vergilius Maro (la)

• “Nec morti esse locum.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Illo Vergilium me tempore dulcis alebat Parthenope studiis florentem ignobilis oti.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Arma virumque cano.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Tantaene animis caelestibus irae?”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Tantae molis erat Romanam condere gentem!”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “O terque quaterque beati!”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Publius Vergilius Maro (la), Virgílio (pt)

• “Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Virgílio (pt)

• “Furor arma ministrat.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Publius Vergilius Maro (la), Virgílio (pt)

• “O socii—neque enim ignari sumus ante malorum— O passi graviora, dabit deus his quoque finem.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Virgílio (pt)

• “Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Dux femina facti.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Data fata secutus.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Virgílio (pt)

• “Sunt hic etiam sua praemia laudi, Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Mens sibi conscia recti.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Publius Vergilius Maro (la), Virgílio (pt)

• “Semper honos nomenque tuum laudesque manebunt.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Line 630, as translated in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999); spoken by Dido.

  Also quoted by: Publius Vergilius Maro (la), Virgílio (pt)

• “Infandum, regina, jubes renovare dolorem.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Quis talia fando Temperet a lacrimis?”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Equo ne credite, Teucri. quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Publius Vergilius Maro (la), Virgílio (pt)

• “In utrumque paratus.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ab uno disce omnes.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

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