40 Quotes by Quintus Ennius

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

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.

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

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

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

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

Quem metuunt, oderunt. (They hate whom they fear.)