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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.

Quintus Ennius

The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.
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Ancient Custom Man State
I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I’m in bed with the influenza.
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Bed Myself Rhyme
Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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Friendship Yourself
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
A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.
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Circumstance Friendship
He who has two languages has two souls.
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Himself Language Soul
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
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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Born Friendship Myself Poet
A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.
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Difficult Friendship One Liner True
Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
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Dare Himself Worth
One man by delaying saved the state for us.
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Delay Man Oneself
The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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Himself Victory
One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
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Man Report Safety State
A true friend is tested in adversity.
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Adversity Friendship
That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.
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Liberty One Liner Purity True
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

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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