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The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.

Quintus Ennius

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics – Unless I am down with rheumatics.
QUINTUS ENNIUS

Born Friendship Myself Poet
Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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Friendship Yourself
That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.
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Liberty One Liner Purity True
To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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Citizenship Crime Lips
One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
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Man Report Safety State
Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
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Death Fear Hate Man
A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.
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Circumstance Friendship
Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
QUINTUS ENNIUS

Celebration Cry Honor Pay Tears
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.]
QUINTUS ENNIUS

Bury Honor Live Myself Tears
He who has two languages has two souls.
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Himself Language Soul
A true friend is tested in adversity.
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Adversity Friendship
The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
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Animal Beast Similarity
He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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Goodness Help Himself Wisdom
He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
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Cleaning Freedom Heart
The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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Himself Victory
I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I’m in bed with the influenza.
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Bed Myself Rhyme

The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.

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