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Let 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 Ennius

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics – Unless I am down with rheumatics.
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Born Friendship Myself Poet
Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
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Celebration Cry Honor Pay Tears
The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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Himself Victory
The idle mind knows not what it wants.
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Known Mindset
That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.
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Liberty One Liner Purity True
The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
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Animal Beast Similarity
He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
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Cleaning Freedom Heart
They hate whom they fear.
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Fear Hate
Let 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.
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Celebration Cry Funeral Man Mourning Myself
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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Father Himself Introduction Poetry
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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Bury Honor Live Myself Tears
A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.
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Difficult Friendship One Liner True
Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
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Dare Himself Worth
Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
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Death Fear Hate Man
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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Calm Conversation Friendship Life Soul True Worth
Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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Friendship Yourself

Let 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.

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