Terence Quotes

Terence (Roman - Writer)

 

170 BC - 159 BC

 

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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.

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.

 

 

 

Fortune favors the brave.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.

 

 

 

Nothing is said that has not been said before.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Moderation in all things.

 

 

 

Their silence is praise enough.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Where there's life, there's hope.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

So many men, so many opinions.

 

 

 

The anger of lovers renews their love.

 

 

 

Too much liberty corrupts us all.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

I do not give money for just mere hopes.

 

 

 

Of my friends I am the only one left.

 

 

 

She ne'er was really charming till she died.