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Letter "T" » Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
"Attired to please herself: no gems of any kind
She wore, nor aught of borrowed gloss in Nature's stead;
And, then her long, loose hair flung round her head
Fell carelessly behind."
Author: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
About: Apparel
"Fare ye well, and give us your applause.
[Lat., Vos valete et plaudite.]"
Author: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
About: Applause
"Charity begins at home.
[Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]"
Author: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
About: Charity
"You are harping on the same string.
[Lat., Cantilenam candem canis.]"
Author: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
About: Consistency
"We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from
others an example for ourselves.
[Lat., Inspicere tamquam in speculum in vitas omnium
Jubeo atque ex aliis sumere exemplum sibi.]"
Author: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
About: Example
"No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward.
[Lat., Neutiquam officium liberi esse hominis puto
Cum is nihil promereat, postulare id gratiae apponi sibi.]"
Author: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
About: Favors
"From others' slips some profit from one's self to gain.
[Lat., Hoc scitum'st periculum ex aliis facere, tibi quid ex usu
sit.]"
Author: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
About: Gain
"I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one
do? According to men's habits and dispositions, so one must
yield to them.
[Lat., Inepta haec esse, nos quae facimus sentio;
Verum quid facias? ut homo est, ita morem geras.]"
Author: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
About: Habit
"How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit.
[Lat., Quam multa injusta ac prava fiunt moribus!]"
Author: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
About: Habit
"The nets not stretched to catch the hawk,
Or kite, who do us wrong; but laid for those
Who do us none at all.
[Lat., Non rete accipitri tenditur, neque miluo,
Qui male faciunt nobis: illis qui nihil faciunt tenditur.]"
Author: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
About: Hawks
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