Virgil: Thing

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“If we may compare small things with great.”
Si parva licet componere magnis.

Virgil Georgics

Book IV, line 176 (tr. Fairclough). Cf. Eclogues 1.23.
Georgics (29 BC)

“To compare great things with small.”
Parvis componere magna.

Virgil book Eclogues

Book I, line 23 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough)
Eclogues (37 BC)

“Time bears away all things, even our minds.”
Omnia fert aetas, animum quoque.

Virgil book Eclogues

Book IX, line 51
Eclogues (37 BC)

Time

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

Virgil Aeneid

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

Sadness

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

Virgil Aeneid

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

Tear

“Blessed is he who has been able to win knowledge of the causes of things.”
Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.

Virgil Georgics

Book II, line 490 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough); homage to Lucretius.
John Dryden's translation:
: Happy the man, who, studying nature's laws,
Thro' known effects can trace the secret cause.
Georgics (29 BC)

Knowledge