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 ENNIUSOne man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
More Quintus Ennius Quotes
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The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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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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The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.
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A true friend is tested in adversity.
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O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics – Unless I am down with rheumatics.
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
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No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
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The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.
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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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Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
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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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Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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