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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

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
The idle mind knows not what it wants.
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Known Mindset
A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.
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Circumstance Friendship
He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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Goodness Help Himself Wisdom
No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
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Feet Inspirational Sight Stars
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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Calm Conversation Friendship Life Soul True Worth
Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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Friendship Yourself
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
A true friend is tested in adversity.
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Adversity Friendship
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.]
QUINTUS ENNIUS

Bury Honor Live Myself Tears
Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
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Death Fear Hate Man
The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.
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Advantage Man Wisdom
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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Father Himself Introduction Poetry
The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
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Animal Beast Similarity
Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
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Celebration Cry Honor Pay Tears
The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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Himself Victory

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

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