The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
QUINTUS ENNIUSTo open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
More Quintus Ennius Quotes
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Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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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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One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
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A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.
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One man by delaying saved the state for us.
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Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
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I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I’m in bed with the influenza.
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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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He who has two languages has two souls.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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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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The idle mind knows not what it wants.
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He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
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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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