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

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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.]
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O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.
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One man by delaying saved the state for us.
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One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]
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The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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No one regards what is before his feet we all gaze at the stars.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
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He who has two languages has two souls.
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A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.
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A true friend is tested in adversity.
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Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
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Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
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A true friend is a friend when in difficulty
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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.
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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?
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