About Virgil: Publius Vergilius Maro is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. A number of minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, are sometimes attributed to him.
A fault is fostered by concealment.
Who can blind lover's eyes?
He enters the port with a full sail.
If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.
Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.
Want of pluck shows want of blood.
What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.
They can because they think they can.
Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.
From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.
I shudder when relating it.
One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.
Passion and strife bow down the mind.
There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
The medicine increases the disease.
Fortune sides with him who dares.
Death twitches my ear; 'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming.
No day shall erase you from the memory of time
I recognize the vestiges of an old flame