Terence quotes
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“I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.”
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“The less my hope, the hotter my love”
-- TerenceSource : Terence (1931). “Terence”
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“There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.”
-- TerenceSource : "Heauton Timorumenos". Play by Terence, Act IV, scene 6, line 1 (805),
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“Moderation in all things.”
-- TerenceSource : Terence, R. H. Martin (1976). “Adelphae”, p.118, Cambridge University Press
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“Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.I am human: nothing human is alien to me.”
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“The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.”
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“When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.”
-- TerenceSource : "Andria", I, 5, 32, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 826, 1922.
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“Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.”
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“They are so knowing, that they know nothing.”
-- TerenceSource : Terence (1858). “Andria”, p.7
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“You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.”
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“Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.”
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“It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.”
-- TerenceSource : Terence, Henry Thomas Riley, Christopher Smart (1853). “The Comedies of Terence: And the Fables of Phædrus”, p.251
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“In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.”
-- TerenceSource : Terence (1964). “Terence: The lady of Andros ; The self-tormentor ; The eunuch”
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“We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves.”
-- TerenceSource : "Adelphoe". Play by Terence (Act III, Scene 3, line 62), 160 BC.
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“How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.”
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“How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?”
-- TerenceSource : Terence (1859). “Comedies of Terence”, p.182
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“It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.”
-- TerenceSource : Terence, Henry Thomas Riley, Christopher Smart (1853). “The Comedies of Terence: And the Fables of Phædrus”, p.114
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“While the mind is in doubt, it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.”
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“We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.”
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