# Quote — Virgil, The Aeneid

> Many an ill has time repaired, and the shifting toil of changing years; many a man has Fortune, fitful visitant, mocked, then once more set up upon firm ground.

- Author: [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md)
- Book: [The Aeneid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid.md)
- Original (la): Multa dies variique labor mutabilis aevi / Rettulit in melius, multos alterna revisens / Lusit et in solido rursus Fortuna locavit.
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aeneid#Book_XI) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/many-an-ill

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> Chance joins with force to guide the steel.

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