Ancient Quote by Quintus Ennius Download Open image “The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.” — Quintus Ennius ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Culture Customs Manhood States
If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. — Ambrose Copy Share Image
A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to… — Virgil Copy Share Image
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies of ostentatious… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I'm in bed with the influenza. — Quintus Ennius Copy Share Image
Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre. — Quintus Ennius Copy Share Image
Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed. — Quintus Ennius Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Amicu certus in re incerta cernitur' [A true friend is a friend when in difficulty]” — Quintus Ennius Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
