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In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.
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Many a time,… from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.
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Without Ceres (bread) and Bacchus (wine) Venus (love) freezes.
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I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
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I only wish I may see your head stroked down with a slipper.
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In attacking the present author they are really attacking Naevius, Plautus and Ennius, whom he takes for his models and whose 'carelessness' he would far rather imitate than his critics' dreary pedantry.
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Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.I am human: nothing human is alien to me.
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That is a true proverb which is wont to be commonly quoted, that "all had rather it were well for themselves than for another."
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It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
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Really, you have seen the old age of an eagle, as the saying is.
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This and a great deal more like it I have had to put up with.
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Extreme law is often extreme injustice.
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Jupiter, now assuredly is the time when I could readily consent to be slain, 4 lest life should sully this ecstasy with some disaster.
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It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.
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How many things, both just and unjust, are sanctioned by custom!
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Some people ask, "What if the sky were to fall?"
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I am human, therefore nothing relating to humanity is outside of my concern.
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I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.
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He is wise who tries everything before arms.
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Moderation in all things. Not anything in excess.
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Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.
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If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
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Look you, I am the most concerned in my own interests.
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What comes from this quarter, set it down as so much gain.
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Blessed be the gods, by whose aid things happen that we wouldn't even dare hope for!
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Born:
185 BC
Died:
159 BC
(aged 26)
Bio:
Publius Terentius Afer, better known in English as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic, of North African descent. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170 160 BC.
Known for:
Adelphoe
Eunuchus (162 BC)
Hecyra
Heauton Timorumenos
Phormio
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