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A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.

Quintus Ennius

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
The idle mind knows not what it wants.
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Known Mindset
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
They hate whom they fear.
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Fear Hate
The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.
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Advantage Man Wisdom
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
Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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Friendship Yourself
Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
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Death Fear Hate Man
Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
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Dare Himself Worth
One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
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Man Report Safety State
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
The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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Himself Victory
Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
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Celebration Cry Honor Pay Tears
He who has two languages has two souls.
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Himself Language Soul
I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I’m in bed with the influenza.
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Bed Myself Rhyme
A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.
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Difficult Friendship One Liner True

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