"He who has two languages has two souls." — Quintus Ennius
"He who has two languages has two souls."
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Quintus Ennius
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17 Quotes by Quintus Ennius
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
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No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
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The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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The idle mind knows not what it wants.
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Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am…
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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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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead
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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…
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to…
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be…
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High thoughts must have high language.
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the…
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed…
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War is what happens when language fails.
— Margaret Atwood
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As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say,…
— Margaret Atwood
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at…
— Diane Ackerman
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The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
— Roger Babson
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
— Gaston Bachelard
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In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but…
— Michelle Bachelet
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
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