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By AnonymQuintus Ennius
A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.
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By AnonymQuintus Ennius
A true friend is a friend when in difficulty
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By AnonymQuintus Ennius
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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By AnonymQuintus Ennius
A true friend is tested in adversity.
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By AnonymQuintus Ennius
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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By AnonymQuintus Ennius
He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
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By AnonymQuintus Ennius
Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
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By AnonymQuintus Ennius
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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By AnonymQuintus Ennius
He who has two languages has two souls.
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By AnonymQuintus Ennius
He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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By AnonymQuintus Ennius
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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By AnonymQuintus Ennius
I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I'm in bed with the influenza.
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By AnonymQuintus Ennius
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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By AnonymQuintus Ennius
Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
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By AnonymQuintus Ennius
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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By AnonymQuintus Ennius
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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By AnonymQuintus Ennius
One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report. [Lat., Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem, Non ponebat enim rumores ante salutem.]
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By AnonymQuintus Ennius
One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]
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By AnonymQuintus Ennius
That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.
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By AnonymQuintus Ennius
The idle mind knows not what it wants.
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By AnonymQuintus Ennius
The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.
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By AnonymQuintus Ennius
To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman Poetry." We must remember how truly Greek he was in his point of view. He set the example for later Latin poetry by writing the first epic of Rome in Greek hexameter verses instead of in the old Saturnian verse. He made popular the doctrines of Euhemerus, and he was in general a champion of free thought and rationalism.
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By AnonymQuintus Ennius
To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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By AnonymQuintus Ennius
Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
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By AnonymQuintus Ennius
Amicu certus in re incerta cernitur' [A true friend is a friend when in difficulty]
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