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Terence Quotes

Type:
Writer Quotes
Category:
Roman Writer Quotes
Year of Birth:
170 BC
Year of Death:
159 BC
Nationality:
Roman
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Terence

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Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
Terence

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.
Terence

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.
Terence

Fortune favors the brave.
Terence

He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.
Terence

How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.
Terence

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.
Terence

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.
Terence

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.
Terence

I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.
Terence

I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.
Terence

I do not give money for just mere hopes.
Terence

I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad.
Terence

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
Terence

In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.
Terence

Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.
Terence

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.
Terence

Moderation in all things.
Terence

Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Terence

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.
Terence

Of my friends I am the only one left.
Terence

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
Terence

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.
Terence

She ne'er was really charming till she died.
Terence

So many men, so many opinions; everyone his own way.
Terence

So many men, so many opinions.
Terence

The anger of lovers renews their love.
Terence

Their silence is praise enough.
Terence

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.
Terence

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.
Terence

They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.
Terence

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.
Terence

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.
Terence

Too much liberty corrupts us all.
Terence

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.
Terence

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
Terence

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!
Terence

Where there's life, there's hope.
Terence

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
Terence

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.
Terence

You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.
Terence

You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
Terence



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