Virgil's most famous lines (with the Latin and the reference)
The top 3 according to 3 votes from people: Fortune favours the bold. · There are tears for things, and mortal matters touch the heart. · Love conquers all: let us too yield to love.. (Updated Sep 6, 2025.)
"Love conquers all", "Time flies, never to be regained", "Fortune favours the bold" and "I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts": the lines of Virgil that became proverbs, from the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid, with the Latin original and the exact reference.
Automatically translated (original in Italiano). See the original
Top 20
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Fortune favours the bold.
"Audentes fortuna iuvat." (Aeneid, X, 284).
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There are tears for things, and mortal matters touch the heart.
"Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt." (Aeneid, I, 462).
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Love conquers all: let us too yield to love.
"Omnia vincit Amor: et nos cedamus Amori." (Eclogues, X, 69).
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But meanwhile it flies, time flies, never to be regained.
"Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus." (Georgics, III, 284).
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I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
"Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes." (Aeneid, II, 49).
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Perhaps one day it will please us to remember even this.
"Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit." (Aeneid, I, 203).
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If I cannot bend the gods above, I will move the underworld.
"Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo." (Aeneid, VII, 312).
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I sing of arms and the man who first from the shores of Troy…
"Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris…" (Aeneid, I, 1).
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Happy is he who has been able to learn the causes of things.
"Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas." (Georgics, II, 490).
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10
O farmers, too fortunate, if only they knew their blessings!
"O fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint, agricolas!" (Georgics, II, 458-459).
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Relentless toil overcame every difficulty.
"Labor omnia vicit improbus." (Georgics, I, 145-146).
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12
Praise large estates, but farm a small one.
"Laudato ingentia rura, exiguum colito." (Georgics, II, 412-413).
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Love is the same for all.
"Amor omnibus idem." (Georgics, III, 244).
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14
A snake lurks in the grass.
"Latet anguis in herba." (Eclogues, III, 93).
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15
We cannot all do everything.
"Non omnia possumus omnes." (Eclogues, VIII, 63).
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Time carries everything away, even the mind.
"Omnia fert aetas, animum quoque." (Eclogues, IX, 51).
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Each is drawn by his own pleasure.
"Trahit sua quemque voluptas." (Eclogues, II, 65).
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A god has made this ease for us.
"Deus nobis haec otia fecit." (Eclogues, I, 6).
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We do not sing to the deaf.
"Non canimus surdis." (Eclogues, X, 8).
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The descent to Avernus is easy.
"Facilis descensus Averno." (Aeneid, VI, 126).
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