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Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.

Quintus Ennius

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
A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.
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Circumstance Friendship
I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I’m in bed with the influenza.
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Bed Myself Rhyme
The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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Himself Victory
One man by delaying saved the state for us.
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Delay Man Oneself
Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
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Celebration Cry Honor Pay Tears
To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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Citizenship Crime Lips
A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.
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Difficult Friendship One Liner True
The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
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Animal Beast Similarity
They hate whom they fear.
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Fear Hate
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
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
One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
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Man Report Safety State
Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
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Dare Himself Worth
Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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Friendship Yourself

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