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Terence

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


— Terence


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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.


— Terence


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They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.


— Terence


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This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.


— Terence


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


— Terence


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Too much liberty corrupts us all.


— Terence


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


— Terence


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I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.


— Terence


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


— Terence


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You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.


— Terence


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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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