Terence famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.
-- Terence

#Strange #Humans
The less my hope, the hotter my love
-- Terence

#Hotter
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
-- Terence

#Life #Positive Thinking #Easy
Charity begins at home.
-- Terence

#Home #Charity #Charity Begins At Home
Moderation in all things.
-- Terence

#Wisdom #Moderation #Moderation In All Things
Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.I am human: nothing human is alien to me.
-- Terence

#Empathy #Aliens #Humans
The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.
-- Terence

#Determination #Men #Games
When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.
-- Terence

#Doubt #Mind #Sides
Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.
-- Terence

#Temptation #Appearance
They are so knowing, that they know nothing.
-- Terence

#Knowledge #Knowing #Knows
You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.
-- Terence

#Men #Debt #Pay
Of my friends I am the only one left.
-- Terence

#Lonely #Loneliness #My Friends
Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
-- Terence

#Teacher #Children #Teaching
It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.
-- Terence

#Age #Vices #Common
In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.
-- Terence

#Teaching #Silence #Facts
We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves.
-- Terence

#Mirrors #Example #Looks
She never was really charming till she died.
-- Terence

#Sarcastic #Charming #Died
Their silence is enough praise.
-- Terence

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

#Fate #Justice #Unfair
How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?
-- Terence

#Justice #Unjust #Customs
It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.
-- Terence

#Trials #Arms #Prudent
While the mind is in doubt, it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
-- Terence

#Educational #Doubt #Mind
We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.
-- Terence

#Freedom #Liberty #Too Much

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