Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
QUINTUS ENNIUS
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A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.
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Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.
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The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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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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A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.
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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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The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
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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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I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I’m in bed with the influenza.
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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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Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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A true friend is tested in adversity.
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They hate whom they fear.
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