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

Quintus Ennius

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
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
He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
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Cleaning Freedom Heart
A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.
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Difficult Friendship One Liner True
I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I’m in bed with the influenza.
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Bed Myself Rhyme
No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
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Feet Inspirational Sight Stars
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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Friendship Himself Loyalty Necessary Soul Worth
A true friend is tested in adversity.
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Adversity Friendship
The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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Himself Victory
The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
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Animal Beast Similarity
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
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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Born Friendship Myself Poet
Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
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Celebration Cry Honor Pay Tears
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
Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
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Death Fear Hate Man
A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.
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Circumstance Friendship

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