He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
QUINTUS ENNIUSWhom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
More Quintus Ennius Quotes
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A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.
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A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.
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Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
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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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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 who has two languages has two souls.
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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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Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
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I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I’m in bed with the influenza.
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That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.
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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 Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.
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The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
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The idle mind knows not what it wants.
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