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Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.

Quintus Ennius

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
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
One man by delaying saved the state for us.
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Delay Man Oneself
Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
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Celebration Cry Honor Pay Tears
I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I’m in bed with the influenza.
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Bed Myself Rhyme
The idle mind knows not what it wants.
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Known Mindset
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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Burn Light Miss Oneself Way
He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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Goodness Help Himself Wisdom
That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.
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Liberty One Liner Purity True
He who has two languages has two souls.
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Himself Language Soul
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
The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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Himself Victory
A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.
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Difficult Friendship One Liner True
Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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Friendship Yourself
The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.
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Advantage Man Wisdom

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