Virgil Men Quotations

Every man makes a god of his own desire

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

Sing in me, muse, of arms and a man, who first from the shores of Troy.

Each man is led by his own liking.

I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores Across the lands and waters he was battered beneath the violence of the high ones for the savage Juno's unforgetting anger.

Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men

That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.