03c. 172 BCMany a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.Terence / quote ↗
07c. 172 BCThere is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.Terence / quote ↗
10c. 172 BCIt is the duty of all persons, when affairs are the most prosperous, then in especial to reflect within themselves in what way they are to endure adversity.Terence / quote ↗
13c. 172 BCI bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.Terence / quote ↗
15c. 172 BCIt is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.Terence / quote ↗
17c. 172 BCIt is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.Terence / quote ↗
18c. 172 BCNo man was ever endowed with a judgment so correct and judicious, in regulating his life, but that circumstances, time and experience, would teach him something new, and apprize him that of those things with which he thought himself the best acquainted, he knew nothing; and that those ideas, which in theory appeared the most advantageous, were found, when brought into practice, to be altogether inapplicable.Terence / quote ↗
19c. 172 BCAll these inconveniences are incidents to love: reproaches, jealousies, quarrels, reconcilements, war, and then peace.Terence / quote ↗
20c. 172 BCIt is possible that a man can be so changed by love, that one could not recognize him to be the same person.Terence / quote ↗
21c. 172 BCHuman nature is so constituted that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.Terence / quote ↗
22c. 172 BCHe who indulges in liberty of speech, will hear things in return which he will not like.Terence / quote ↗
23c. 172 BCWisdom consists not in seeing what is directly before us, but in discerning those things which may come to pass.Terence / quote ↗
