To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
QUINTUS ENNIUSDon’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
More Quintus Ennius Quotes
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A true friend is tested in adversity.
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The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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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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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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Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
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He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
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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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Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.
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No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
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That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.
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One man by delaying saved the state for us.
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They hate whom they fear.
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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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