“Love conquers all; let us, too, yield to Love!”

— Virgil, Eclogues, Book X, line 69 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough)

About Virgil

70 BC – 19 BC

Roman poet, author of the "Aeneid".

“He follows his father, but not with equal steps.”

“Every field, every tree is now budding; now the woods are green, now the year is at its loveliest.”

“Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Give all to love; obey thy heart.”

“What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.”

“The spiritualization of sensuality is called love.”

“There is not love of life without despair about life.”

“The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.”