# Virgil

- Quotes: 410
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil

## Books

- [The Aeneid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid.md) — 540 quotes
- [The Eclogues](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-eclogues.md) — 109 quotes
- [The Georgics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-georgics.md) — 100 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> But the trumpet with brazen song rang out afar its fearful call; a shout follows and the sky re-echoes.

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> Chance joins with force to guide the steel.

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> Valiant of tongue, though his hand was cold for battle.

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> The hoofs of horses, with a rattling sound,
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> Beat short and thick, and shake the rotten ground.

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> Mine is a heart that scorns the light, and believes that the glory that you strive for is cheaply bought with life.

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> How each man weaves
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> his web will bring him to glory or to grief.

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> Dying, he slew; and, staggering on the plain,
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> With swimming eyes he sought his lover slain;
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> Then quiet on his bleeding bosom fell,
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> Content, in death, to be revenged so well.

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> Hammer away with all your rhetoric.

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> Jupiter himself upholds two scales in even balance, and lays therein the diverse destinies of both, whom the strife dooms, and with whose weight death sinks down.

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> The picture of filial love touched his soul.

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> Thus all are ruled by one passion, to let the sword decide.

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> Do the gods, Euryalus, put this fire in our hearts, or does his own wild longing become to each man a god?

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