Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
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.] - Quintus Ennius
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.]
- Quintus Ennius
Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre. - Quintus Ennius
Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.
A true friend is tested in adversity. - Quintus Ennius
A true friend is tested in adversity.
No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars. - Quintus Ennius
No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
He who has two languages has two souls. - Quintus Ennius
He who has two languages has two souls.
The idle mind knows not what it wants. - Quintus Ennius
The idle mind knows not what it wants.
They hate whom they fear. - Quintus Ennius
They hate whom they fear.
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 hi… - Quintus 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 hi…
That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast. - Quintus Ennius
That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.
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