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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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The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
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Animal Beast Similarity
The idle mind knows not what it wants.
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Known Mindset
He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
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Cleaning Freedom Heart
Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
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Dare Himself Worth
A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.
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Circumstance Friendship
One man by delaying saved the state for us.
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Delay Man Oneself
One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]
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Avoid Enemy Engagement Man Resource Restore Skill
Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
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Death Fear Hate Man
A true friend is tested in adversity.
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Adversity Friendship
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
I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I’m in bed with the influenza.
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Bed Myself Rhyme
To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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Citizenship Crime Lips
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 pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
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Celebration Cry Honor Pay Tears
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
The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.
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Ancient Custom Man State

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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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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