One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]
QUINTUS ENNIUSThey hate whom they fear.
More Quintus Ennius Quotes
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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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The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
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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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That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.
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A true friend is tested in adversity.
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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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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.
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Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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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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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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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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No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
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