A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.
QUINTUS ENNIUSI never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I’m in bed with the influenza.
More Quintus Ennius Quotes
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A true friend is tested in adversity.
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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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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One man by delaying saved the state for us.
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They hate whom they fear.
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Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
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That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.
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The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.
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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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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 victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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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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A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
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