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Terence

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The less my hope, the hotter my love


— Terence


#love

Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges


— Terence


#science

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.


— Terence


#believing #god #good #like #makes

Fortune favors the brave.


— Terence


#favors #fortune

I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.


— Terence


#am #human #i #i am #me

Nothing is said that has not been said before.


— Terence


#before #nothing #said

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.


— Terence


#common #common sense #grand #grand thing #sense

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

You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.


— Terence


#bills #chance #his #man #pays

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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