Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
QUINTUS ENNIUSA true friend is tested in adversity.
More Quintus Ennius Quotes
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The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.
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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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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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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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One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
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The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
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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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The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.
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He who has two languages has two souls.
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Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
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A true friend is tested in adversity.
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Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I’m in bed with the influenza.
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