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Térence , né à Carthage aux alentours de 190 et mort en 159 av. J.-C., vendu à Rome comme esclave, est devenu un poète comique latin. Il était peut-être d'origine berbère. Auteur de seulement six pièces qui nous sont toutes parvenues, il est considéré, avec Plaute, comme un des deux grands maîtres du genre à Rome, et son œuvre a exercé une influence profonde sur le théâtre européen, de l'Antiquité jusqu'aux Temps Modernes.

✵ 185 av. J.-C. – 159 av. J.-C.
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“Je suis humain : rien de ce qui est humain ne m'est étranger.”

Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.
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Heauton Timoroumenos

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

Obsequium parit amicos, veritas parit odium.
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L'Andrienne

Térence: Citations en anglais

“So many men, so many opinions: to each his own way.”
Quot homines tot sententiae: suus cuique mos.

Terence Phormio

Act II, scene 4, line 14 (454).
Variant translations:
There are as many opinions as there are people: each has his own view.
There are as many opinions as there are people: each has his own correct way.
There are as many opinions as there are people: everyone has their own way of doing things.
Phormio

“It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.”

Terence Adelphoe

Act V, scene 3, line 18 (803).
Adelphoe (The Brothers)

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

Terence Adelphoe

Act III, scene 3, line 61 (415).
Adelphoe (The Brothers)

“What now if the sky were to fall?”

Terence Heauton Timorumenos

Act IV, scene 3, line 41 (719).
Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor)

“Moderation in all things.”
Ne quid nimis.

Terence Andria

Not anything in excess, a translation from the Greek μηδὲν ἄγαν. "Nothing in excess" as inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.
Source: Andria (The Lady of Andros), Line 61.

“I took to my heels as fast as I could.”

Terence Eunuchus

Act V, scene 2, 5, line 844.
Eunuchus

“Look you, I am the most concerned in my own interests.”

Terence Andria

Act IV, scene 1, line 12 (636).
Andria (The Lady of Andros)

“Many a time,… from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.”

Terence Eunuchus

Act V, scene 2, 34, line 873.
Eunuchus

“Some might, but not you.”
Aliis si licet, tibi non licet.

Terence Heauton Timorumenos

Act IV, scene 5, line 49 (797).
Variant translations:
Though others were at liberty, you are not at liberty.
Even though it is permitted for others, it isn't permitted for you.
Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor)

“The very flower of youth.”

Terence Eunuchus

Act II, scene 3, 28, line 319.
Eunuchus

“Hence these tears.”
Hinc illae lacrimae.

Terence Andria

Variant translation: Hence all those tears shed.
Source: Andria (The Lady of Andros), Line 126.

“Time removes distress.”
Diem adimere aegritudinem hominibus.

Terence Heauton Timorumenos

Act III, scene 1, line 12 (421).
Variant translations:
Time heal all wounds.
Time assuages sorrow.
Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor)

“Nothing is easier to say.”
Nil est dictu facilius.

Terence Phormio

Source: Phormio, Line 300.

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