Quotes from Quintus Ennius

No sooner said than done—so acts your man of worth.

No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.

Whom they fear they hate.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.

Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.

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.

By delaying he preserved the state.

Amicu certus in re incerta cernitur' [A true friend is a friend when in difficulty]

One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]

Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.

Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

Amicu certus in re incerta cernitur' [A true friend is a friend when in difficulty]

They hate whom they fear.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.

Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.

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?

The idle mind knows not what it wants.

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.

Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.

One man by delaying saved the state for us.

No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.