Sweet Quotes by Quintus Ennius

They hate whom they fear.

— Quintus Ennius

Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of…

— Quintus Ennius

To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman Poetry." We…

— Quintus Ennius

I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I'm in bed with the influenza.

— Quintus Ennius

A true friend is tested in adversity.

— Quintus Ennius

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

— Quintus Ennius

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

— Quintus Ennius

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

— Quintus Ennius

He who has two languages has two souls.

— Quintus Ennius

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

— Quintus Ennius

The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage. [Lat., Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi prodesse non…

— Quintus Ennius

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

— Quintus Ennius