# Quote — Virgil, The Georgics

> Thus every creature, and of every kind,
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> The secret joys of sweet coition find.
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> Not only man's imperial race, but they
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> That wing the liquid air, or swim the sea,
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> Or haunt the desert, rush into the flame:
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> For love is lord of all, and is in all the same.

- Author: [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md)
- Book: [The Georgics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-georgics.md)
- Original (la): Omne adeo genus in terris hominumque ferarumque, / Et genus aequoreum, pecudes, pictaeque volucres, / In furias ignemque ruunt. Amor omnibus idem.
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-georgics/thus-every-creature

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> But when you hold him in the grasp of hands and fetters, then will manifold forms baffle you, and figures of wild beasts. For of a sudden he will become a bristly boar, a deadly tiger, a scaly serpent, or a lioness with tawny neck; or he will give forth the fierce roar of flame, and thus slip from his fetters, or he will melt into fleeting water and be gone.

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> And now farewell! Involved in shades of night,
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> For ever I am ravished from thy sight.
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> In vain I reach my feeble hands to join
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> In sweet embraces—ah! no longer thine!

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> And lay down their lives in the wound.

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