Terence quotes
BC 185-18159 Roman Writer of ComediesI do not give money for just mere hopes.
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Chance
How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.
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Chance
You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.
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Debt
What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
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Common Sense
Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.
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Friends and Friendship
We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.
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Freedom
I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad.
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Excess
You re a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
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Focus
What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!
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Fathers
As a person is so must you humor them.
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Humor
I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.
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Humankind
Their silence is praise enough.
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Praise
They are so knowing, that they know nothing.
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Knowledge
Of my friends I am the only one left.
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Loneliness
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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Justice
To touch a sore is to renew one s grief.
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Pain
Nothing is said which has not been said before.
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Plagiarism
While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
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Mind
Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
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Teachers and Teaching
Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.
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Quarrels
Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.
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Appearance
I believe because it is impossible.
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Belief
You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.
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Belief
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Age and Aging
I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
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Variety
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.
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Value