Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
QUINTUS ENNIUSDon’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
More Quintus Ennius Quotes
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A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.
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He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
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One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
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They hate whom they fear.
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Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.
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The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.
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One man by delaying saved the state for us.
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That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.
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The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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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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A true friend is tested in adversity.
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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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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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