Quotes by Terence

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

Terence on debt   

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

Terence on excess
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"What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!"

Terence on fathers   

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

Terence on focus   

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

Terence on freedom   

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

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

Terence on age and aging   

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

Terence on humankind   

"As a person is so must you humor them."

Terence on humor   

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

Terence on justice   

"They are so knowing, that they know nothing."

Terence on knowledge   

"Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong."

Terence on appearance   

"Of my friends I am the only one left."

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

Terence on mind   

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

Terence on pain   

"Nothing is said which has not been said before."

Terence on plagiarism   

"Their silence is praise enough."

Terence on praise   

"Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love."

Terence on quarrels
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"I believe because it is impossible."

Terence on belief   

"You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly."

Terence on belief   

"I do not give money for just mere hopes."

Terence on chance   

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

Terence on chance
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"Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion."

Terence on teacher   

"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."

Terence on value   

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

Terence on variety   

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

Terence on common sense