O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics – Unless I am down with rheumatics.
QUINTUS ENNIUSA sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.
More Quintus Ennius Quotes
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One man by delaying saved the state for us.
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Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
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The idle mind knows not what it wants.
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A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.
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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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Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
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The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
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He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
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Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
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No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
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They hate whom they fear.
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That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.
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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.
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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