The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
QUINTUS ENNIUS
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Engagement
One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]
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The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.
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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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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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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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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 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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Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
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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 who has two languages has two souls.
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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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Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
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The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
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