Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Terence

Terence Roman comic dramatist (185 BC - 159 BC)


Terence - Andria
- Charity begins at home.

Terence - Eunuchus
- In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.

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- I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.

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- Their silence is sufficient praise.

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- So many men so many questions.
(Quot Homines Tot Sententiae)

Terence - Eunuchus
- I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

Terence -
- Too much liberty corrupts us all.

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- Nothing is said that has not been said before.

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- I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.

Terence - Andria
- Moderation in all things.

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- There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.

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

Terence - Phormio
- Fortune helps the brave.

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- I am a man: I hold that nothing human is alien to me.

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- What is done let us leave alone.

Terence - Adelphoe
- I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.