Too much liberty corrupts us all.
- Terence

How often events, by chance, and unexpectedly, came to pass, which you had not dared even to hope for!
- Terence

You’re a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
- Terence

A word to the wise is sufficient.
- Terence

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

The strictest justice is sometimes the greatest injustice.
- Terence

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

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
- Terence

As a person is so must you humor them.
- Terence

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

Fortune favors the brave.
- Terence

As you cannot do what you wish, you should wish what you can do.
- Terence

I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.
- Terence

Charity begins at home.
- Terence

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!
- Terence

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.
- Terence

That is true wisdom, to know how to alter one’s mind when occasion demands it.
- Terence

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
- Terence

What is done let us leave alone.
- Terence

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
- Terence

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.
- Terence

In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.
- Terence

Words gain credibility by deed.
- Terence

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.
- Terence

Where there’s life, there’s hope.
- Terence

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.
- Terence

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

For nowaday deference gets you friends, honesty gets you hated.
- Terence

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

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

To touch a sore is to renew one’s grief.
- Terence

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.
- Terence

She ne’er was really charming till she died.
- Terence

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.
- Terence

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

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.
- Terence

None of us is ever satisfied with what we are.
- Terence

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