Térence citations

“La complaisance fait les amis, la franchise les ennemis.”

“Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.”
Nil tam difficile est quin quaerendo investigari possit.

“Really, you have seen the old age of an eagle, as the saying is.”

“Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love.”
Amantium irae amoris integratio est.

“What comes from this quarter, set it down as so much gain.”

“Extreme law is often extreme injustice.”
Ius summum saepe summa est malitia.

“Without Ceres (bread) and Bacchus (wine) Venus (love) freezes.”
Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus

“According as the man is, so must you humor him.”

“I did not care one straw.”

“Obsequiousness begets friends, truth hatred.”
Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit.

“Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?”

“In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.”
Nullumst iam dictum quod non dictum sit prius.

“As the saying is, I have got a wolf by the ears.”

“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.”

“It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.”

“It is up with you; all is over; you are ruined.”

“Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.”
Periclum ex aliis facito tibi quod ex usu siet.

“Of surpassing beauty and in the bloom of youth.”

“If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.”

“I am human, I consider nothing human alien to me.”
Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.

“Take care and say this with presence of mind.”

“Jupiter, now assuredly is the time when I could readily consent to be slain, 4 lest life should sully this ecstasy with some disaster.”

“Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.”

“How many things, both just and unjust, are sanctioned by custom!”

“There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.”

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

“This and a great deal more like it I have had to put up with.”

“It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.”

“It is the duty of all persons, when affairs are the most prosperous, 12 then in especial to reflect within themselves in what way they are to endure adversity.”

“While there's life, there's hope.”
Modo liceat vivere, est spes.