#epic
30 quotes
“Endure the hardships of your present state, and live through unhappy times. The Aeneid, Book 6”
“The greatest wealth is health.”
“Perhaps one day it will be pleasing to remember even these things. The Aeneid, Book 1”
“Time flies never to be recalled.”
“Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them. The Aeneid, Book 6”
“Fury itself supplies arms.”
“The descent to the underworld is easy; the gate of darkness stands open day and night. The Aeneid, Book 6”
“Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love. Eclogues, X”
“They can because they think they can.”
“I sing of arms and the man, who first from the shores of Troy came to Italy. The Aeneid, Book 1”
“Resolve to do right; leave the rest to fate.”
“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. The Odyssey, Book 11”
“Courage is not something that can be measured, but it is something that can be given.”
“The journey is long and full of hardships.”
“Light is the task when many share the toil.”
“A sympathetic man can make even a stranger his friend.”
“The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worthy to die for.”
“Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured. The Odyssey, Book 15”
“There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. The Odyssey, Book 6”
“Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. The Iliad, Book 1”
“Chapter XIV, lines 49”
“Ella è quanto de ben pò far natura; per essemplo di lei bieltà si prova. She is the sum of nature's universe. To her perfection all of beauty tends.”
“Chapter I, First Sonnet”
“ne le braccia avea madonna involta in un drappo dormendo. Poi la svegliava, e d'esto core ardendo lei paventosa umilmente pascea: appresso gir lo ne vedea piangendo. In his arms, my lady lay asleep, wrapped in a veil. He woke her then and trembling and obedient She ate that burning heart out of his hand ; Weeping I saw him then depart from me.”
“Chapter I (tr. Barbara Reynolds); of love .”
“Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur mihi. Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.”
“Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti [3]”
“Here beginneth the new life.”
“Chapter I, opening lines”
“In quella parte del libro de la mia memoria, dinanzi a la quale poco si potrebbe leggere, si trova una rubrica, la quale dice: Incipit vita nova. [1] In that book which is My memory ... On the first page That is the chapter when I first met you Appear the words ... Here begins a new life .”