A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.
QUINTUS ENNIUSHe hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
More Quintus Ennius Quotes
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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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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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He who has two languages has two souls.
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A true friend is tested in adversity.
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They hate whom they fear.
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The idle mind knows not what it wants.
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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.
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Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
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One man by delaying saved the state for us.
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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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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
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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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I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I’m in bed with the influenza.
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