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Terence Quotes

195 BC–159 BC

Publius Terentius Afer (195/185–159 BC), more commonly referred to as Terence, was a comic playwright of the Roman Republic. A Berber born in or near Carthage, his comedies were first performed between 170 BC and 160 BC.

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For he who has acquired the habit of lying or deceiving his father, will do the same with less remorse to others. I believe that it is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect, and by gentleness, than by fear.

With his own sword do I stab this man

Nothing is easier to say.

Said and done. Done as soon as said.

Modo liceat vivere, est spes.

I did not care one straw.

What unjust judges fathers are, when in regard to us they hold
That even in our boyish days we ought in conduct to be old,
Nor taste at all the very things that youth and only youth requires;
They rule us by their present wants not by their past long-lost desires.

Fortune favours the brave.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Terence (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.