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.

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

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

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.

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

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

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

Nothing is said which has not been said before.

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.

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.

Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.

I believe because it is impossible.

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

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!

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.

I do not give money for just mere hopes.

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

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

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.

She never was really charming till she died.

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.

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

Fortune helps the brave.

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

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

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

You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.

Where there's life, there's hope.

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

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

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

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