Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
QUINTUS ENNIUSThe idle mind knows not what it wants.
More Quintus Ennius Quotes
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
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Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I’m in bed with the influenza.
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No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
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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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He who has two languages has two souls.
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One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
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A true friend is tested in adversity.
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They hate whom they fear.
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Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
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That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.
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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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