That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.
QUINTUS ENNIUSThat is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.
QUINTUS ENNIUSLet 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 ENNIUSLet 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.
QUINTUS ENNIUSO friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics – Unless I am down with rheumatics.
QUINTUS ENNIUSHe whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
QUINTUS ENNIUSTo open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
QUINTUS ENNIUSNo one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
QUINTUS ENNIUSThe ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
QUINTUS ENNIUSA true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.
QUINTUS ENNIUSHe hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
QUINTUS ENNIUSDon’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
QUINTUS ENNIUSA true friend is a friend when in difficulty.
QUINTUS ENNIUSOne man by delaying saved the state for us.
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.
QUINTUS ENNIUSHe who has two languages has two souls.
QUINTUS ENNIUSThe Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.
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