Ennius Quotes

Otioso in otio animus nescit quid velit.

Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque.

Quem nemo ferro potuit superare nec auro.

Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur.

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.

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

Homo qui erranti comiter monstrat viam,
Quasi lumen de suo lumine accendat facit;
Nihilo minus ipsi lucet, cum illi accenderit.

And earth who herself bestowed the body takes it back and wastes not a whit.

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

Incerte errat animus; praeterpropter vitam vivitur.

Dictum factumque facit frux.

Quem metuunt oderunt; quem quisque odit, perisse expetit.

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

No sooner said than done—so acts your man of worth.

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