Terence Quotes
Publius Terentius Afer was a playwright of the Roman Republic.
(184 BC - 159 BC)
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A bad heart, bad designs.
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A word to the wise is sufficient.
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Abundance changes the value of things.
[Abundance]
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All men have more consideration for themselves than for others.
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All men wear a disguised habit.
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All persons as they become less prosperous, are the more suspicious. They take everything as an affront; and from their conscious weakness, presume that they are neglected.
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All these inconveniences are incidents to love: reproaches, jealousies, quarrels, reconcilements, war, and then peace.
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And he makes a great mistake, in my opinion at least, who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.
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As each one wishes his children to be, so they are.
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As God loves me, I know not where I am.
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As many men, so many opinions.
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As we can, according to the old saying, when we can not, as we would.
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As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do.
[Wish]
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By great efforts obtain great trifles.
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By too much knowledge they bring it about that they know nothing.
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Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
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Deception follows on the heels of deception.
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Do not do what is already done.
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Do you fear to trust the word of a man, whose honesty you have seen in business?
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