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?
QUINTUS ENNIUSLet 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.
More Quintus Ennius Quotes
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They hate whom they fear.
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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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The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.
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He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
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I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I’m in bed with the influenza.
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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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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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The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
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Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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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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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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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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