The seeds of life - fiery is their force, divine their birth, but they are weighed down by the bodies' ills or dulled by limbs and flesh that's born for death. That is the source of all men's fears and longings, joys and sorrows, nor can they see the heaven's light, shut up in the body's tomb, a prison dark and deep. Virgil
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More Quotes By Virgil
  1. The greatest wealth is health
  2. Death twitches my ear;' Live, ' he says... 'I'm coming.
  3. Omnia vincit amor" - "Love conquers all
  4. Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC)The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all...
  5. Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day
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