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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

Quintus Ennius

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

Friendship Yourself
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
Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
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Dare Himself Worth
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
A true friend is tested in adversity.
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Adversity Friendship
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
Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
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Death Fear Hate Man
I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I’m in bed with the influenza.
QUINTUS ENNIUS

Bed Myself Rhyme
The idle mind knows not what it wants.
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Known Mindset
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
The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.
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Ancient Custom Man State
He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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Goodness Help Himself Wisdom
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
A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.
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Difficult Friendship One Liner True
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.
QUINTUS ENNIUS

Burn Light Miss Oneself Way

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

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