The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way.
Each draws to his best-loved.
Learn all from one thing. -Ab uno disce omnes.
He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.
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.
The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions.
We have to thank God for this retirement.
If I am unable to make the gods above relent, I shall move hell.
Passion and strife bow down the mind.
Womankind Is ever a fickle and a changeful thing.
Rumor goes forth at once, Rumor than whom No other speedier evil thing exists; She thrives by rapid movement, and acquires Strength as she goes; small at the first from fear, She presently uplifts herself aloft, And stalks upon the ground and hides her head Among the clouds.
These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust.
Is it then so sad a thing to die?
O you who have borne even heavier things, to these too, God will grant an end!
We are not all able to do all things.
Even virtue is fairer in a fair body.
Sing in me, muse, of arms and a man, who first from the shores of Troy.
Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.
The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.
Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.