The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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.
A true friend is tested in adversity.
Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
The idle mind knows not what it wants.
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.
No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
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.
He who has two languages has two souls.
He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
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.]
A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.
They hate whom they fear.
He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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?
A true friend is a friend when in difficulty
That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.
Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.
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.]
I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I'm in bed with the influenza.
One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]
The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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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