“Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“The descent into Hell is easy”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“Let me rage before I die.”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent and easy is the way.”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC)
The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all...”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“...She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“Vera incessu patuit dea.
(The goddess indubitable was revealed in her step.)”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love,
hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood,
consumed by the fire buried in her heart. [...]
His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling--
no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“The gates of hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labor lies.”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“Duty bound, Aeneas, though he struggled with desire to calm and comfort her in all her pain, to speak to her and turn her mind from grief, and though he sighed his heart out, shaken still with love if her, yet took the course heaven gave him and turned back to the fleet. ”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“Facilis descensus Averni:
noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;
sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras.
hoc opus, hic labor est.”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“the dewy night unrolls a heaven thickly jewelled with sparkling stars”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“Friend, have the courage
To care little for wealth, and shape yourself,
You too, to merit godhead.”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“What good are prayers and shrines to a person mad with love? The flame keeps gnawing into her tender marrow hour by hour, and deep in her heart the silent wound lives on.”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“et iam nox umida caelo praecipitat suadentque cadentia sidera somnos”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“Will Mars be always in your windy tongue and in your flying feet?”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea
and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl...”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs.”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“Facilis descensus Averno:
Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;
Sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras,
Hoc opus, hic labor est.
(The gates of Hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this task and mighty labor lies.)”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
“So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart,
He feigned hope in his look, and inwardly
Contained his anguish. […]
Aeneas, more than any, secretly
Mourned for them all”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
Virgil
Born place: in Near Mantua, Cisalpine Gaul, Roman Republic, Italy
Born date October 23, 0070
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“..no matter how much one reads, the whole story can never be told.”
― Lemony Snicket, quote from The End
“When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?”
― Tom Stoppard, quote from Arcadia
“I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have been blind... Every morning you have gone to work, but you have never been fully awake. Of course, you have seen the sun and the moon, the stars in the sky, and everything that moves, but you haven't really seen it at all. It is different for the Joker, because he was put into this world with a flaw: He sees too clearly and too much.”
― Jostein Gaarder, quote from The Solitaire Mystery: A Novel About Family and Destiny
“By the early 1960’s America had reluctantly come to realize that it possessed, as a nation, the most potent scientific complex in the history of the world. Eighty per cent of all scientific discoveries in the preceding three decades had been made by Americans. The United States had 75 per cent of the world’s computers, and 90 per cent of the world’s lasers. The United States had three and a half times as many scientists as the Soviet Union and spent three and a half times as much money on research; the U.S. had four times as many scientists as the European Economic Community and spent seven times as much on research.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from The Andromeda Strain
“From their midst a broad-shouldered man stepped forth, past Longwick, who tried vainly to motion him back. He ran three strides toward me, and I took a deep, unbelieving breath of his scent just before he enfolded me in a bear hug. Despite the pain to my shoulder, I didn't struggle. I dropped my head on his shoulder, and let him support me, feeling safer than I had in years. Suddenly, it seemed as if everything would be all right, as if everything could be mended. Heart of the Pack was here and he never let us come to harm.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Fool's Fate
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