To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
QUINTUS ENNIUS
QUINTUS ENNIUS
Quintus Ennius on citizenship
Quintus Ennius30 quotes“To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.”
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The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.
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Quintus EnniusQuintus Ennius Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.
Quintus EnniusQuintus Ennius Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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Quintus EnniusQuintus Ennius Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
Quintus EnniusQuintus Ennius 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 EnniusQuintus Ennius He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
Quintus EnniusQuintus 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.
Quintus EnniusQuintus Ennius He who has two languages has two souls.
Quintus EnniusQuintus Ennius Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
Quintus EnniusQuintus Ennius The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
Quintus EnniusQuintus Ennius I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I’m in bed with the influenza.
Quintus EnniusQuintus Ennius The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.
Quintus EnniusQuintus Ennius 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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