Dashiell Hammett
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Terence
Roman comic playwright
Publius Terentius Afer ( c. 195/185 – c. 159? BC), better known in English as Terence (), was a playwright during the Roman Republic.
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Publius Terentius Afer ( c. 195/185 – c. 159? BC), better known in English as Terence (), was a playwright during the Roman Republic. He was the author of six comedies based on Greek originals by Menander or Apollodorus of Carystus. Terence’s plays were originally staged around 166-160 BC.
According to ancient authors, Terence was born in Carthage and was brought to Rome as a slave, where he gained an education and his freedom; around the age of 25, Terence is said to have made a voyage to the east in search of inspiration for his plays, where he died either of disease in Greece, or by shipwreck on the return voyage. However, Terence’s traditional biography is often thought to consist of speculation by ancient scholars who lived too long after Terence to have access to reliable facts about his life.
Terence’s plays quickly became standard school texts. He ultimately secured a place as one of the four authors taught to all grammar pupils in the Western Roman Empire, and retained a central place in the European school curriculum until the 19th Century, exercising a formative influence on authors such as William Shakespeare and Moliere.
41 Quotes by Terence
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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.
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Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.
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She ne’er was really charming till she died.
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You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.
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I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.
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This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.
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Moderation in all things.
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Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.
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How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.
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While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
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Fortune favors the brave.
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You’re a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
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Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
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There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.
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- 15.
Their silence is praise enough.
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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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I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad.
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- 18.
I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.
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- 19.
You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.
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- 20.
They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.
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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.
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- 22.
Extreme law is often extreme injustice.
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- 23.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
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Where there’s life, there’s hope.
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I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.
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- 26.
The anger of lovers renews their love.
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- 27.
In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.
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- 28.
To touch a sore is to renew one’s grief.
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- 29.
Of my friends I am the only one left.
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- 30.
Too much liberty corrupts us all.
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- 31.
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.
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What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!
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Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
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For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.
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- 35.
They are so knowing, that they know nothing.
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- 36.
So many men, so many opinions.
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- 37.
I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
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- 38.
I do not give money for just mere hopes.
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- 39.
What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
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- 40.
Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.
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- 41.
We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.
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