He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
QUINTUS ENNIUSA true friend is a friend when in difficulty.
More Quintus Ennius Quotes
-
-
That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.
QUINTUS ENNIUS -
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.
QUINTUS ENNIUS -
Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
QUINTUS ENNIUS -
The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
QUINTUS ENNIUS -
He who has two languages has two souls.
QUINTUS ENNIUS -
A true friend is tested in adversity.
QUINTUS ENNIUS -
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?
QUINTUS ENNIUS -
Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
QUINTUS ENNIUS -
The idle mind knows not what it wants.
QUINTUS ENNIUS -
Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
QUINTUS ENNIUS -
He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
QUINTUS ENNIUS -
Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.
QUINTUS 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 ENNIUS -
The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.
QUINTUS ENNIUS -
To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
QUINTUS ENNIUS