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“Here and there are seen swimmers in the vast abyss.”
Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 118 (tr. Fairclough)

“Is it then so sad a thing to die?”
Usque adeone mori miserum est?

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book XII, Line 646 (tr. Alexander Thomson)

“Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them.”
Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 95

“Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.”
Desine fata deum flecti sperare precando.

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 376

“The leader of the enterprise a woman.”
Dux femina facti.

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 364 (tr. Fairclough); of Dido.

“Your honor, your name, your praise will live forever.”
Semper honos nomenque tuum laudesque manebunt.

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 609 (tr. Fagles); Aeneas to Dido.

“Hunger that persuades to evil.”
Malesuada Fames.

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 276

“Blessings on your young courage, boy; that's the way to the stars.”
Macte nova virtute, puer, sic itur ad astra.

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IX, Line 641

“If only Jupiter would give me back
The past years and the man I was…”

O mihi praeteritos referat si Iuppiter annos.

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VIII, Line 560 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)

“Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.”
Cantantes licet usque (minus via laedit) eamus.

Book IX, line 64
Eclogues (37 BC)

“Some day, perhaps, remembering even this
Will be a pleasure.”

Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 203 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)

“Who can deceive a lover?”
Quis fallere possit amantem?

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Line 296

“Amid the friendly silence of the peaceful moon.”
Tacitae per amica silentia lunae.

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Line 255 (tr. Fairclough)

“Friends and companions,
Have we not known hard hours before this?
My men, who have endured still greater dangers,
God will grant us an end to these as well.”

O socii—neque enim ignari sumus ante malorum— O passi graviora, dabit deus his quoque finem.

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Lines 198–199 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)

“Rumor, swiftest of all the evils in the world.”
Fama, malum qua non aliud velocius ullum.

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Line 174 (tr. Robert Fagles)

“Who could tell such things and still refrain from tears?”
Quis talia fando Temperet a lacrimis?

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Lines 6 and 8 (tr. Fagles)

“It is easier to steal the club of Hercules than a line from Homer.”
Facilius esse Herculi clavam quam Homero versum subripere.

As quoted by Asconius Pedianus, and reported in Suetonius-Donatus, Vita Vergili http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/de_Poetis/Vergil*.html (Life of Virgil), 46 http://virgil.org/vitae/.
Attributed

“Mind moves matter.”
Mens agitat molem.

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 727

“Give lilies with full hands.”
Manibus date lilia plenis.

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 883

“Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.”
Degeneres animos timor arguit.

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Line 13