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Terence

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Extreme law is often extreme injustice.


— Terence


#injustice #law #often

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.


— Terence


#ask #better #love #love is #madness

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


#authority #better #established #firmer #force

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


— Terence


#dared #even #hope #how #mere

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


— Terence


#always #fate #how #least #should

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


#curses #get #how #know #mind

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


— Terence


#concerns #humanity #i #i am #interest

I do not give money for just mere hopes.


— Terence


#hopes #i #i do #just #mere

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


— Terence


#bad #hold #i #life #much

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!


— Terence


#fathers #harsh #judges #men #young






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Terence apparently died young probably in Greece or on his way back to Rome. Terence wrote in a simple conversational Latin and most students who persevere long enough to be able to read him in the vernacular find his style particularly pleasant and direct. But the gossip not discouraged by Terence lived and throve; it crops up in Cicero and Quintilian and the ascription of the plays to Scipio had the honour to be accepted by Montaigne and rejected by Diderot.

One famous quotation by Terence reads: "Homo sum humani nihil a me alienum puto" or "I am a human being I consider nothing that is human alien to me. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC. All of the six plays Terence wrote have survived.

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