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.
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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Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
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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.
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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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They hate whom they fear.
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The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.
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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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One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
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He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
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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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One man by delaying saved the state for us.
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He who has two languages has two souls.
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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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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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