One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]
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 pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
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The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
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A true friend is tested in adversity.
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They hate whom they fear.
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One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
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The idle mind knows not what it wants.
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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 sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.
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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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Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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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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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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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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