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It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
Time passes irrevocably.
Age carries all things away, even the mind.
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
Fate will find a way.
Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori. Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.
Love conquers all things.
Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.
If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.
O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!
Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.
Trust not too much to appearances.
Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is.
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
Time is flying never to return.
Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.
Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.
Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all.
Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.
Easy is the descent to hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the path; to come out again to the sweet air of Heaven - there is the task, there is the burden.
Endure and save yourselves for happier times.
Every man makes a god of his own desire.
From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.
And, just for good measure, here are a handful of runners up: For now the seventh summer carries you, A wanderer, across the lands and waters.
He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.
One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.
All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river. . . . In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re-visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.
I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores Across the lands and waters he was battered beneath the violence of the high ones for the savage Juno's unforgetting anger.
Love conquers all; therefore, let us submit to love.
They are able who think they are able.
Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.
Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused
Fear is proof of a low born soul
There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.
In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
Age steals away all things, even the mind.
Fortune sides with him who dares.
Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.
If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.
I shudder when relating it.
Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.
Don't trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts. -Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes
Want of pluck shows want of blood.
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
Every sound alarms.
All things deteriorate in time.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
Endure the present, and watch for better things.
Fortune favours the bold.
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.
There's a snake lurking in the grass.
But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.
A fault is fostered by concealment.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Love conquers all.
Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.
Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.
Time flies never to be recalled.
Fury itself supplies arms.
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
From one learn all.
To have died once is enough.
A chaplet of leaves crowns the victor.
A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever.
A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)
All our sweetest hours fly fastest.
Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts,
Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.
Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses
Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
Each draws to his best-loved.
Each man is led by his own liking.
Each of us bears his own Hell.
Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.
E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain, Oft have I seen the war of winds contend, And prone on earth th' infuriate storm descend, Waste far and wide, and by the roots uptorn, The heavy harvest sweep through ether borne, As light straw and rapid stubble fly In dark'ning whirlwinds round the wintry sky.
Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.
Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.
Even virtue is fairer in a fair body.
Every man makes a god of his own desire
Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.
Facilis decensus averni. The descent into hell is easy.
Fear betrays unworthy souls.
Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.
Fear reveals baseborn souls!
Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.
Fortune sides with he who dares
From a single crime know the nation.
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.
Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.
He enters the port with a full sail.
He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas
I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.
I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.
I will be gone from here and sing my songs/ In the forest wilderness where the wild beasts are,/ And carve in letters on the little trees/ The story of my love, and as the trees/ Will grow letters too will grow, to cry/ In a louder voice the story of my love.
If I am unable to make the gods above relent, I shall move hell.
If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell
If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.
If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.
Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.
In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.
In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom.
Is it then so sad a thing to die?
Is there so much anger in the minds of the gods?
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...
It is well to be informed about the winds, About the variations in the sky, The native traits and habits of the place, What each locale permits, and what denies.
Learn all from one thing. -Ab uno disce omnes
Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.

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