“Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love.”
Amantium irae amoris integratio est.
Act III, scene 3, line 23 (555).
Variant translation: Lovers’ rows make love whole again.
Andria (The Lady of Andros)
Quotes from workAndria
TerenceOriginal title Andria (Latin)
Andria is a Roman comedy adapted by Terence from two Greek plays by Menander the first being Samia and the other being Perinthia. It was the first play by Terence to be presented publicly, and was performed in 166 BC during the Ludi Megalenses. It became the first of Terence's plays to be performed post-antiquity, in Florence in 1476. It was adapted by Machiavelli, whose Andria was likewise the author's first venture into playwriting, and was the first of Terence's plays to be translated into English ca. 1520. The second English translation was by the Welsh writer Morris Kyffin in 1588.
“Obsequiousness begets friends, truth hatred.”
Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit.
Act I, scene i, Line 41
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“Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?”
The Prologue, line 17.
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“Of surpassing beauty and in the bloom of youth.”
Act I, scene 1, line 45 (72).
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“Moderation in all things.”
Ne quid nimis.
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.
“Look you, I am the most concerned in my own interests.”
Act IV, scene 1, line 12 (636).
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Act II, scene 5, line 15 (426).
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“Hence these tears.”
Hinc illae lacrimae.
Variant translation: Hence all those tears shed.
Source: Andria (The Lady of Andros), Line 126.
