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.
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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Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
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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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A true friend is tested in adversity.
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A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.
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The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
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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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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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He who has two languages has two souls.
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The idle mind knows not what it wants.
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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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One man by delaying saved the state for us.
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The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
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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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