Ennius Quotes

Your minds that once did stand erect and strong,
What madness swerves them from their wonted course?

Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur.

There is no fellowship inviolate,
no faith is kept, when kingship is concerned.

As a strong horse that has often won on the last lap at Olympia is now resting, tired out by old age.

Terram corpus quae dederit, ipsam
capere neque dispendi facere hilum.

Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem.
Noenum rumores ponebat ante salutem;
Ergo plusque magisque viri nunc gloria claret.

Sicut fortis equus, spatio qui saepe supremo
Vicit Olympia, nunc senio confectus quiescit.

Qui vincit non est victor nisi victus fatetur.

Nulla sancta societas
Nec fides regni est.

Nec cauponantes bellum sed belligerantes;
Ferro non auro vitam cernamus utrique.

Dictum factumque facit frux.

All my life I taught Zen to the people - Nine and seventy years.
He who sees not things as they are
Will never know Zen.

Quem nemo ferro potuit superare nec auro.

Incerte errat animus; praeterpropter vitam vivitur.

Fortibus est fortuna viris data.