"It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms."

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Source : Terence, Henry Thomas Riley, Christopher Smart (1853). “The Comedies of Terence: And the Fables of Phædrus”, p.114

Terence

#Trials Quotes #Arms Quotes #Prudent Quotes

“After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.”
“Business is recognizing the role it can play in combatting climate change. Thank God, is all I can say, for there is a desperately urgent need for business to play that role. Your lobbying influence can be substantial, but together, united and in large enough numbers it could prove decisive in turning the tide.”
“Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and a half of nonsense.”
“I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.”
“Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.”
“Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship with nature that man once enjoyed, the kukui-nut stands ready to furnish him with food, flavor, tannin, oil, paint, varnish, medicine, and magic.”
“Zakhor. Al Tichkah. Remember. Never forget.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tatiana de Rosnay from Jul 16, 2012
“Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.”

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