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.
QUINTUS ENNIUSLet no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
More Quintus Ennius Quotes
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No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
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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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The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
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The idle mind knows not what it wants.
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The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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He who has two languages has two souls.
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Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
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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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They hate whom they fear.
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A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
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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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The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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