When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.
—Terence
Topics: Uncertainty
Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.
—Terence
Topics: Friendship
He who cannot do what he wants must make do with what he can.
—Terence
Topics: Acceptance, Realistic Expectations
I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.
—Terence
Topics: Humanity
So many men, so many opinions.
—Terence
Topics: Opinions
That is true wisdom, to know how to alter one’s mind when occasion demands it.
—Terence
Topics: Wisdom
How often events, by chance, and unexpectedly, come to pass, which you had not dared even to hope for!
—Terence
Topics: Chance
You’re a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
—Terence
Topics: Focus, Concentration
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
—Terence
Topics: Health
Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.
—Terence
Topics: Appearance
Words gain credibility by deed.
—Terence
Topics: Getting Going, Procrastination, Inaction
Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
—Terence
Of all mankind each loves himself the best.
—Terence
Topics: Self-love
Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
—Terence
Topics: Children, Teachers, Teaching
What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!
—Terence
Topics: Father, Fathers
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.
—Terence
Topics: Authority
Walk in another’s shoes before judging them.Touch a person’s heart before trying to change their head.While there’s life, there’s hope.
—Terence
Topics: Character
My advice is to consult the lives of other men, as one would a looking-glass, and from thence fetch examples for imitation.
—Terence
Topics: Biography, Example
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
—Terence
Topics: Age, Aging, Experience
To touch a sore is to renew one’s grief.
—Terence
Topics: Pain
I do not give money for just mere hopes.
—Terence
Topics: Chance
Fortune favors the bold.
—Terence
Topics: Luck, Fortune
What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
—Terence
Topics: Cleverness, Common Sense
Nothing is said which has not been said before.
—Terence
Topics: Plagiarism
While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
—Terence
Topics: Mind, The Mind
It is possible that a man can be so changed by love as hardly to be recognized as the same person.
—Terence
Topics: Love
You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.
—Terence
Topics: Belief
They are so knowing, that they know nothing.
—Terence
Topics: Knowledge
Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.
—Terence
Topics: Friends and Friendship
How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.
—Terence
Topics: Justice
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- Martial Ancient Roman Latin Poet
- Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) Roman Comic Playwright
- Marcus Manilius Roman Poet
- Virgil Roman Poet
- Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Roman Stoic Philosopher
- Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Roman Poet
- Quintilian Roman Rhetorician, Literary Critic
- Persius Roman Poet
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