Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
QUINTUS ENNIUSOne man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
More Quintus Ennius Quotes
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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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A true friend is tested in adversity.
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Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
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A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.
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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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One man by delaying saved the state for us.
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The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.
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The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
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They hate whom they fear.
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The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.
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He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
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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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A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.
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