Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
QUINTUS ENNIUSLet no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
More Quintus Ennius Quotes
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One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
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No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.
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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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He who has two languages has two souls.
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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 Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.
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They hate whom they fear.
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He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
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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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I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I’m in bed with the influenza.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.
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One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]
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