He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
QUINTUS ENNIUSHe whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
QUINTUS ENNIUSNo one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
QUINTUS ENNIUSO friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics – Unless I am down with rheumatics.
QUINTUS ENNIUSOne man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
QUINTUS ENNIUSHe who has two languages has two souls.
QUINTUS ENNIUSOne man by delaying saved the state for 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 ENNIUSI never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I’m in bed with the influenza.
QUINTUS ENNIUSThe ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
QUINTUS ENNIUSLet no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
QUINTUS ENNIUSWhom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
QUINTUS ENNIUSHe hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
QUINTUS ENNIUSTo open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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 ENNIUSDon’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
QUINTUS ENNIUSEnnius 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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