No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
QUINTUS ENNIUSThe idle mind knows not what it wants.
More Quintus Ennius Quotes
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Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
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A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.
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A true friend is tested in adversity.
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A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.
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He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
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Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
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One man by delaying saved the state for us.
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The idle mind knows not what it wants.
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That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.
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One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]
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One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
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The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.
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Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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