A biography for Virgilhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“Each of us bears his own Hell.”
“The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.”
“If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.”
“There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.”
“He enters the port with a full sail.”
“Trust one who has tried.”
“They can conquer who believe they can.”
“He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.”
“They can because they think they can.”
“Every sound alarms.”
“forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day”
“No day shall erase you from the memory of time”
“Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.”
“All our sweetest hours fly fastest.”
“Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.”
“Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.”
“All things deteriorate in time.”
“Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all.”
“From one learn all.”