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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

Quintus Ennius

He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another’s lamp from his own lamp; it none the less gives light to himself when it burns for the other.
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Burn Light Miss Oneself Way
Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
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Death Fear Hate Man
Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
QUINTUS ENNIUS

Celebration Cry Funeral Man Mourning Myself
Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me. [Lat., Nemo me lacrymis decoret, nec funera fletu. Faxit cur? Volito vivu’ per ora virum.]
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Bury Honor Live Myself Tears
They hate whom they fear.
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Fear Hate
The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.
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Advantage Man Wisdom
A true friend is tested in adversity.
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Adversity Friendship
A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.
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Difficult Friendship One Liner True
One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
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Man Report Safety State
He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
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Cleaning Freedom Heart
To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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Citizenship Crime Lips
O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics – Unless I am down with rheumatics.
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Born Friendship Myself Poet
One man by delaying saved the state for us.
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Delay Man Oneself
He who has two languages has two souls.
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Himself Language Soul
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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Father Himself Introduction Poetry
How can life be worth living, if devoid Of the calm trust reposed by friend in friend? What sweeter joy than in the kindred soul, Whose converse differs not from self-communion?
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Calm Conversation Friendship Life Soul True Worth

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

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