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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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Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
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How many things, both just and unjust, are sanctioned by custom!
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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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He is wise who tries everything before arms.
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Really, you have seen the old age of an eagle, as the saying is.
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It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.
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If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
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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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It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
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Without Ceres (bread) and Bacchus (wine) Venus (love) freezes.
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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
Hecyra
Heauton Timorumenos
Phormio
Most used word:
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