Quotes by Terence

As a person is so must you humor them.
– 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
I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.
– Terence
I believe because it is impossible.
– 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
Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.
– Terence
Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.
– Terence
Of my friends I am the only one left.
– Terence
Their silence is praise enough.
– Terence
They are so knowing, that they know nothing.
– 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
I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.
– Terence
I am a man: I hold that nothing human is alien to me.
– Terence
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.
– Terence
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
– Terence
So many men so many questions.
(Quot Homines Tot Sententiae)
– Terence
That is true wisdom, to know how to alter one's mind when occasion demands it.
– Terence
Their silence is sufficient praise.
– Terence
There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.
– Terence
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
– Terence
Too much liberty corrupts us all.
– Terence
What is done let us leave alone.
– Terence
While there's life, there's hope.
– Terence
Charity begins at home.
– Terence
Moderation in all things.
– Terence
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
– Terence
Fortune helps the brave.
– Terence
The anger of lovers renews their love.
– Terence
Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
– Terence