Terence Quotes

185-159 BC, Roman Writer of Comedies
quotes
26
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“Their silence is praise enough.”
Praise
“I believe because it is impossible.”
Belief
“Of my friends I am the only one left.”
Loneliness
“As a person is so must you humor them.”
Humor
“I do not give money for just mere hopes.”
Chance
“To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.”
Pain
“Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.”
Quarrels
“They are so knowing, that they know nothing.”
Knowledge
“What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!”
Fathers
“Nothing is said which has not been said before.”
Plagiarism
“I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.”
Humankind
“We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.”
Freedom
“You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.”
Belief
“Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.”
Appearance
“I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad.”
Excess
“What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.”
Common Sense
“You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.”
Debt
“Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.”
Friends and Friendship
“How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.”
Chance
“While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.”
Mind
“Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.”
Teachers and Teaching
“You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.”
Focus
“I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.”
Variety
“How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.”
Justice
“No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.”
Age and Aging
“Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.”
Value