15th October: Virgil

Virgil was born on this date in 70BC. He was the Classical Roman poet who wrote the Aeneid.

1. They succeed, because they think they can.
2. Time flies never to be recalled.
3. Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
4. Fortune favours the bold.
5. 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.
6. Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
7. Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
8. Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.
9. The medicine increases the disease.
10. Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.