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“Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”
― The Aeneid
― The Aeneid
“Fortune sides with him who dares.”
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“Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.”
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“Death twitches my ear;
'Live,' he says...
'I'm coming.”
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'Live,' he says...
'I'm coming.”
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“Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori.
Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.”
― Eclogues
Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.”
― Eclogues
“The descent into Hell is easy”
― The Aeneid
― 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.”
― The Aeneid
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labor lies.”
― The Aeneid
“Let me rage before I die.”
― The Aeneid
― The Aeneid
“Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?”
― The Aeneid
― The Aeneid
“The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent and easy is the way.”
― The Aeneid
― The Aeneid
“If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”
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“No day shall erase you from the memory of time”
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“forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day”
― Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1–6
and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day”
― Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1–6
“They can because they think they can.”
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“Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men”
― The Aeneid
― The Aeneid
“The greatest wealth is health”
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“Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC)
The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all...”
― The Aeneid
The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all...”
― The Aeneid
“...She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.”
― The Aeneid
― 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.)”
― The Aeneid
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.)”
― The Aeneid
“Each of us bears his own Hell.”
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“Trust one who has gone through it.”
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“Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.”
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“It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air---there's the rub...”
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“Love conquers all; therefore, let us submit to love.”
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“Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?”
― The Aeneid
― 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.”
― The Aeneid
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.”
― The Aeneid
“Death's brother, sleep.”
― The Aeneid
― The Aeneid
“Facilis descensus Averni.”
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“Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.”
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