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I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I’m in bed with the influenza.

Quintus Ennius

A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.
QUINTUS ENNIUS

Difficult Friendship One Liner True
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
No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
QUINTUS ENNIUS

Feet Inspirational Sight Stars
To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
QUINTUS ENNIUS

Citizenship Crime Lips
He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
QUINTUS ENNIUS

Goodness Help Himself Wisdom
I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I’m in bed with the influenza.
QUINTUS ENNIUS

Bed Myself Rhyme
Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
QUINTUS ENNIUS

Friendship Yourself
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
Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
QUINTUS ENNIUS

Dare Himself Worth
Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
QUINTUS ENNIUS

Celebration Cry Honor Pay Tears
The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
QUINTUS ENNIUS

Animal Beast Similarity
The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
QUINTUS ENNIUS

Himself Victory
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 ENNIUS

Burn Light Miss Oneself Way
One man by delaying saved the state for us.
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Delay Man Oneself
The idle mind knows not what it wants.
QUINTUS ENNIUS

Known Mindset
He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
QUINTUS ENNIUS

Cleaning Freedom Heart

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