One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
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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They hate whom they fear.
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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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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.
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One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]
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I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I’m in bed with the influenza.
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He who has two languages has two souls.
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Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
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Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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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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The idle mind knows not what it wants.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.
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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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The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
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