I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won’t; when you won’t, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.
- Terence

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

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

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

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

Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.
- Terence

I know the nature of women; When you want to, they don’t want to; And when you don’t want to, they desire exceedingly.
- Terence

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

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

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

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

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

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
- Terence

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

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

He makes a great mistake… who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.
- Terence

Some quotes by Publius Terentius Afer also known as Terence
- Terence

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

Fortune helps the brave.
- Terence

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

A word to the wise is sufficient.
- Terence

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

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

For now a day deference gets you friends, honesty gets you hated.
- Terence

Charity begins at home.
- Terence

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.
- Terence

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.
- Terence

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

My closest relation is myself.
- Terence

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

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