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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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Quintus Ennius
#Death Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Grieving Quotes
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“No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.”
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Quintus Ennius
Source : As quoted in "De Divinatione" by Cicero, Book II, Chapter XIII,
#Stars Quotes
#Feet Quotes
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“A true friend is a friend when in difficulty”
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Quintus Ennius
#True Friend Quotes
#Difficulty Quotes
#True Friend Is Quotes
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“To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.”
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Quintus Ennius
#Liberty Quotes
#Lips Quotes
#Citizens Quotes
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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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Quintus Ennius
#Light Quotes
#Giving Quotes
#Way Quotes
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“That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.”
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Quintus Ennius
#Freedom Quotes
#Liberty Quotes
#Bears Quotes
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“One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report. [Lat., Unus ***** nobis cunctando restituit rem, Non ponebat enim rumores ante salutem.]”
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Quintus Ennius
#Men Quotes
#Safety Quotes
#Delay Quotes
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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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Quintus Ennius
#Tears Quotes
#Mouths Quotes
#Nemo Quotes
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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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Quintus Ennius
#Friends Quotes
#Loyalty Quotes
#True Friend Quotes
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“A true friend is tested in adversity.”
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Quintus Ennius
#True Friend Quotes
#Adversity Quotes
#True Friend Is Quotes
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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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Quintus Ennius
#Men Quotes
#Enemy Quotes
#Delay Quotes
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“The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage. [Lat., Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi prodesse non quiret.]”
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Quintus Ennius
#Wise Quotes
#Wisdom Quotes
#Men Quotes
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“Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead”
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Quintus Ennius
#Hate Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Hatred Quotes
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“He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.”
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Quintus Ennius
#Wise Quotes
#Helping Quotes
#Being Wise Quotes
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“He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.”
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Quintus Ennius
#Heart Quotes
#Compassion Quotes
#Constant Quotes
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“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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Quintus Ennius
#Real Quotes
#Self Quotes
#Joy Quotes
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“The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so”
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Quintus Ennius
#Doe Quotes
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“The idle mind knows not what it wants.”
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Quintus Ennius
Source : As quoted in "Noctes Atticae" by Aulus Gellius, Book XIX, Chapter X,
#Mind Quotes
#Want Quotes
#Idle Quotes
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“Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.”
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Quintus Ennius
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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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Quintus Ennius
#Sweet Quotes
#Home Quotes
#Tongue Quotes
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“He who has two languages has two souls.”
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Quintus Ennius
#Two Quotes
#Soul Quotes
#Two Souls Quotes
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“A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.”
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Quintus Ennius
#Real Quotes
#Real Friends Quotes
#Circumstances Quotes
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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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Quintus Ennius
#Deeds Quotes
#Worthy Quotes
#Daring Quotes
