Virgil: Quotes about the world

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“Even here, merit will have its true reward…
even here, the world is a world of tears
and the burdens of mortality touch the heart.”
Sunt hic etiam sua praemia laudi, Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.

Virgil Aeneid

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Lines 461–462 (tr. Robert Fagles)

World , Tear , Heart

“Toil conquered the world, unrelenting toil, and want that pinches when life is hard.”
Labor omnia vicit<!--uicit--> improbus et duris urgens in rebus egestas.

Virgil Georgics

Book I, lines 145–146 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough).
Compare: Labor omnia vincit ("Work conquers all"), the state motto of Oklahoma.
Georgics (29 BC)

World

“At times the world sees straight, but many times the world goes astray.”
Interdum volgus rectum videt, est ubi peccat.

Virgil

Horace, Epistles, Book II, epistle i, line 63
Misattributed

World , Time

“How fortunate, both at once!
If my songs have any power, the day will never dawn
that wipes you from the memory of the ages, not while
the house of Aeneas stands by the Capitol's rock unshaken,
not while the Roman Father rules the world.”
Fortunati ambo! si quid mea carmina possunt, Nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo, Dum domus Aeneae Capitoli immobile saxum Accolet imperiumque pater Romanus habebit.

Virgil Aeneid

Fortunati ambo! si quid mea carmina possunt,
Nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo,
Dum domus Aeneae Capitoli immobile saxum
Accolet imperiumque pater Romanus habebit.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IX, Lines 446–449 (tr. Robert Fagles)

Age , World , Memory , Housing

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

Virgil Aeneid

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

World , Evil