40 Quotes by Quintus Ennius

Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.

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

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

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

That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.

A true friend is tested in adversity.

A true friend is a friend when in difficulty

He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.

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.]