The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.
QUINTUS ENNIUSThe idle mind knows not what it wants.
More Quintus Ennius Quotes
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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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Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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He who has two languages has two souls.
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A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.
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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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Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
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That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.
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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 ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
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One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]
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Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
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No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
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One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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