Terence Quotes

Charity begins at home.

It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.

You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

The less my hope, the hotter my love

When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

Moderation in all things.

We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

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.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

As many opinions as there are men; each a law to himself.

Of my friends I am the only one left.

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

While the mind is in doubt, it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

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

How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.

Their silence is enough praise.

She never was really charming till she died.

Fortune helps the brave.

Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.I am human: nothing human is alien to me.