Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
QUINTUS ENNIUSHe 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.
More Quintus Ennius Quotes
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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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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.
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I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I’m in bed with the influenza.
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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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A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.
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The idle mind knows not what it wants.
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The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.
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That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.
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One man by delaying saved the state for us.
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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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Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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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.
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One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
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