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Authors
Terence
Roman
Writer
About the author
Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Right
#Children
#Persuasion
For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Love
#Rules
#Advice
#Madness
Fortune favors the brave.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Fortune
#Favors
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,
Roman
Writer
#Authority
#Mistake
#Force
#Affection
I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Nothing
I do not give money for just mere hopes.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Money
How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Hope
#Chance
There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Right
#Men
#Wrong
So many men, so many opinions.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Men
#Opinions
Their silence is praise enough.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Silence
#Praise
The anger of lovers renews their love.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Love
#Anger
#Lovers
They are so knowing, that they know nothing.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Nothing
Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Men
#Nature
#Human nature
You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Hope
You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Time
#Chance
#Man
While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Mind
#Doubt
Where there's life, there's hope.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Life
#Hope
What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Judges
#Fathers
We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Liberty
Too much liberty corrupts us all.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Liberty
To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Grief
This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Excess
They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Love
#Feet
#Dancing
What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Common sense
You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Needs
#Attention
Moderation in all things.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Moderation
In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Nothing
#Fact
Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Time
#Beginning
I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Life
I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Humanity
#Interest
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Nothing
Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Right
#Wrong
Of my friends I am the only one left.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Friends
Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Love
#Lovers
#Quarrels
Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#God
#Design
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,
Roman
Writer
#Mind
#Value
#Blessings
She ne'er was really charming till she died.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
Extreme law is often extreme injustice.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Law
#Extreme
#Injustice
I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Nothing
#Being
I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.
Terence,
Roman
Writer
#Fate