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Virgil quotes

70 BC–19 BC · Roman poet, author of the Aeneid

Virgil wrote Rome's national epic and was read in schools for two thousand years, which is why so many of his half-lines became proverbs.

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3 quotes traced to Virgil's own work or a reliable witness.

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Fortune favours the bold.
Source: Aeneid X.284 ("Audentes fortuna iuvat")
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Love conquers all.
Source: Eclogues X.69 ("Omnia vincit Amor")
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Time flies, never to be regained.
Source: Georgics III.284 ("Fugit inreparabile tempus")