The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
QUINTUS ENNIUSHe who has two languages has two souls.
More Quintus Ennius Quotes
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The idle mind knows not what it wants.
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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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The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
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Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
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Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
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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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One man by delaying saved the state for us.
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No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
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Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
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He who has two languages has two souls.
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A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.
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He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
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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.
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