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Give place to your betters. [Lat., De locum melioribus.]


Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)

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To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is t...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) Attired to please herself: no gems of any kind She wore, nor aught of borrowed gloss in Nature's ...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves. ...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit. [Lat., Quam multa injusta ac prava fiu...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one do? According to men's habits an...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) Charity begins at home. [Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) You are harping on the same string. [Lat., Cantilenam candem canis.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) Fare ye well, and give us your applause. [Lat., Vos valete et plaudite.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. [Lat.,...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward. [Lat., Neutiquam officium liberi e...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) Knavery's now its own reward. [Lat., His nunc praemium est qui recta prava faciunt.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) I go back to those who say: what if the heavens fall? [Lat., Redeo ad illes qui aiunt: quid si c...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly.
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) From others' slips some profit from one's self to gain. [Lat., Hoc scitum'st periculum ex aliis fa...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) The nets not stretched to catch the hawk, Or kite, who do us wrong; but laid for those Who do ...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) All persons as they become less prosperous, are the more suspicious. They take everything as an af...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.) [Lat., Ne laterum laves.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. [Lat., Quoniam id fieri quod vis...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) When you will, they wont, when you wont, they will.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER What the law will compel you to do, do of your own free will.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER Too much of anything is bad.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER When in good health we easily give good advice to the sick.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER Fortune favors the brave. [Lat., Fortes fortuna adjuvat.]
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.) [Lat., Ne laterum laves.]
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER Charity begins at home. [Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER You tell a tale to a dead man.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER You stick in the same mire.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER You made this mess yourself, and now you must eat it all up.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER You kick against the goad.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER You harp perpetually on the same string.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER You are his father by nature, I by counsel.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER Words pay no debts.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER With his own weapon do I stab him.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER Fortune helps the brave.
PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER They are so knowing, that they know nothing.
TERENCE While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
TERENCE As a person is so must you humor them.
TERENCE I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.
TERENCE Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges
TERENCE No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from...
TERENCE Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.
TERENCE We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.
TERENCE I am a man; nothing human is alien to me.
TERENCE I believe because it is impossible.
TERENCE Their silence is praise enough.
TERENCE To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.
TERENCE Of my friends I am the only one left.
TERENCE Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.
TERENCE I do not give money for just mere hopes.
TERENCE How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.
TERENCE You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
TERENCE What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
TERENCE You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.
TERENCE Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.
TERENCE What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!
TERENCE How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treas...
TERENCE Nothing is said which has not been said before.
TERENCE I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
TERENCE I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad.
TERENCE You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.
TERENCE The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
TERENCE Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
TERENCE Where there's life, there's hope.
TERENCE I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.
TERENCE You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.
TERENCE Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to u...
TERENCE Fortune helps the brave.
TERENCE In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.
TERENCE I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
TERENCE Moderation in all things.
TERENCE Charity begins at home.
TERENCE What is done let us leave alone.
TERENCE Too much liberty corrupts us all.
TERENCE There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
TERENCE There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.
TERENCE Their silence is sufficient praise.
TERENCE That is true wisdom, to know how to alter one's mind when occasion demands it.
TERENCE So many men so many questions.
(Quot Homines Tot Sententiae)
TERENCE Nothing is said that has not been said before.
TERENCE I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for...
TERENCE I am a man: I hold that nothing human is alien to me.
TERENCE I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.
TERENCE For nowaday deference gets you friends, honesty gets you hated
TERENCE I know the ways of women; they won't come when thou wilt, and when thou won't they are passionately ...
TERENCE I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me
TERENCE I'm not very enthusiastic. I think the market is not behaving well as a whole, ... There's just a lo...
TERENCE The election is exaggerating the short term, but it's not the issue. The issue is the deceleration o...
TERENCE Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion
TERENCE I do think, though, longer term the semiconductor area, both equipment makers and the chip producers...
TERENCE Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in th...
TERENCE I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts up...
TERENCE Fortune favors the brave.
TERENCE For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness
TERENCE Do not overdo what has already been overdone
TERENCE The market is still looking forward to discounting a neutral stance by the Fed,
TERENCE But at the current stage, I do not have the impression that there are strong political figures among...
TERENCE The less my hope, the hotter my love
TERENCE Moderation in all things
TERENCE You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
TERENCE This is a market with a lot of volatility. There doesn't seem to be a lot of faith in the next two, ...
TERENCE Nothing can be said nowadays which has not already been said
TERENCE He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the...
MARCUS TERENTIUS VARRO Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.
MARCUS TERENTIUS VARRO The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.
MARCUS TERENTIUS VARRO The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of t...
MARCUS TERENTIUS VARRO What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
MARCUS TERENTIUS VARRO Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.
PUBLIUS SYRUS There is no legal obligation to perform impossibilities.
PUBLIUS CELSUS The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.
PUBLIUS SYRUS Confidence, like the soul, never returns, whence it has departed.
PUBLIUS SYRUS There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible...
TERENCE FISHER One of the nicest things I ever read about our show was that a critic felt 'Boardwalk Empire'...
TERENCE WINTER When I started off with 'Dance India Dance,' even the TV show people thought it won't be...
TERENCE LEWIS Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.
TERENCE MCKENNA We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we ...
TERENCE MCKENNA You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring bac...
TERENCE MCKENNA It is not those who can inflict the most but those who can endure the most who will conquer.
TERENCE MACSWINEY The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which ...
TERENCE MCKENNA Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
TERENCE MCKENNA Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominan...
TERENCE MCKENNA The magic of photography is metaphysical. What you see in the photograph isn't what you saw at the t...
TERENCE DONOVAN Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening
TERENCE MCKENNA I live up at about the 2000 feet level on a five acre piece of forest that I built a small house on.
TERENCE MCKENNA If I hear an interesting turn of phrase on TV, I'll repeat it back - I just like to roll it arou...
TERENCE WINTER The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
TERENCE MCKENNA I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the sa...
TERENCE STAMP There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.
TERENCE MCKENNA I started with the book 'Boardwalk Empire' and then immersed myself in the history of Atlant...
TERENCE WINTER When Prohibition was first enacted in 1920, most people stockpiled alcohol, thinking they'd have...
TERENCE WINTER J. Edgar Hoover very famously denied the existence of organized crime up until the Appalachian Meeti...
TERENCE WINTER Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up...
TERENCE MCKENNA It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movi...
TERENCE STAMP The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue....
TERENCE FISHER In fact, I think when we carry out a complete analysis of time, I think what we're going to disc...
TERENCE MCKENNA I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to specul...
TERENCE STAMP We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create yo...
TERENCE MCKENNA The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the...
TERENCE MCKENNA With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out ...
TERENCE STAMP Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face.
TERENCE YOUNG I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in t...
TERENCE STAMP We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselve...
TERENCE MCKENNA I'm not really gangsta. Not at all. I just write about them. It's fun to pretend, at least o...
TERENCE WINTER We think those numbers are likely to be subdued, not super weak and not super strong.
TERENCE GABRIEL Many stocks have already built in good earnings. A stock like Goldman Sachs had a tremendous run ove...
TERENCE GABRIEL Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a thi...
TERENCE MCKENNA The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
TERENCE MCKENNA If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment wit...
TERENCE MCKENNA Tell that to every publisher who's done a dictionary of quotations. They can stand by themselves bec...
TERENCE HODGSON Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.
TERENCE MCKENNA The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting foreve...
TERENCE MCKENNA The election is exaggerating the short term, but it's not the issue. The issue is the deceleration o...
TERENCE GABRIEL I work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part ...
TERENCE STAMP The thing that I've enjoyed the most about this position is being able to use the museum as a means ...
TERENCE RILEY [Without the rejuvenation of the city's varied industries, and with too much reliance on tourism, th...
TERENCE RILEY I do think, though, longer term the semiconductor area, both equipment makers and the chip producers...
TERENCE GABRIEL It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent...
TERENCE MCKENNA We wouldn't be here if it weren't for psychedelic drugs. In terms of the role of psilocybin in human...
TERENCE SMITH Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a pecul...
TERENCE MCKENNA The market is still looking forward to discounting a neutral stance by the Fed.
TERENCE GABRIEL One FBI agent told us early on that on Monday morning, they would get to the FBI office, and all the...
TERENCE WINTER I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, a...
TERENCE MCKENNA Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is lif...
TERENCE MCKENNA I'm not very enthusiastic. I think the market is not behaving well as a whole. There's just a lot of...
TERENCE GABRIEL When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very...
TERENCE RATTIGAN I don't think passing on the suppression costs would be done just as a deterrent. The fact of the ma...
TERENCE MCELROY No one knows enough to worry.
TERENCE MCKENNA The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying wi...
TERENCE MCKENNA I tend not to read reviews; there's too much out there in cyberspace.
TERENCE WINTER You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light,...
TERENCE MCKENNA It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological po...
TERENCE MCKENNA Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explore...
TERENCE MCKENNA Only psychos and shamans create their own reality
TERENCE MCKENNA Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture ag...
TERENCE MCKENNA The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
TERENCE MCKENNA Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing...
TERENCE MCKENNA One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looki...
TERENCE FISHER The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fe...
TERENCE FISHER Very often at the end of 'The Sopranos' you get the feeling that its not under control, you ...
TERENCE WINTER We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. L...
TERENCE MCKENNA He's Soderbergh, we're working for him. It doesn't matter what he's doing; we'll...
TERENCE STAMP Nur weil
mein Leben
unlogisch
ist,
heißt das
nicht, dass es
nicht fun...
TERENCE HORN A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro...
TERENCE MCKENNA The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collecti...
TERENCE MCKENNA Things are pretty strange in this world and people do it many ways and you are just an atom in a gal...
TERENCE MCKENNA Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.
TERENCE MCKENNA Human history is a Gaian dream.
TERENCE MCKENNA The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And...
TERENCE MCKENNA The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.
PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASOOVID Custom adapts itself to expediency
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Forbidden things have a secret charm
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, c...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Rumor is not always wrong
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.
PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fea...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The unknown always seems sublime
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS