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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Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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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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The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
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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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A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.
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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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A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.
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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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The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
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Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
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That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.
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The idle mind knows not what it wants.
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.
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