Terence Quotes

Of my friends I am the only one left.

I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad.

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

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

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.

Nothing is said which has not been said before.

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

You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.

As a person is so must you humor them.

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

Their silence is praise enough.

I believe because it is impossible.

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.

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!

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.

Where there's life, there's hope.

You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.

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

How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.

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

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

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

I do not give money for just mere hopes.

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