# Quote — Virgil, The Aeneid

> Roman, remember by your strength to rule
>
> Earth's people—for your arts are to be these:
>
> To pacify, to impose the rule of law,
>
> To spare the conquered, battle down the proud.

- Author: [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md)
- Book: [The Aeneid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid.md)
- Original (la): Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento / (Hae tibi erunt artes), pacique imponere morem, / Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos.
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Virgil#Book_VI) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/roman-remember-by-your

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> Chance joins with force to guide the steel.

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