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It Is The Common Vice Of All, In Old Age, To Be Too Intent Upon Our Interests.
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It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.
-- Terence (185-159 BC)
-- Adelphoe, Act v, Sc. 8, 30, (953.)
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It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
-- Terence (185-159 BC) -- Adelphoe, Act v, Sc. 3, 18, (803.)...
What comes from this quarter, set it down as so much gain.
-- Terence (185-159 BC) -- Adelphoe, Act v, Sc. 3, 30, (816.)...
According as the man is, so must you humour him. -- Terence (185-159 BC) -- Adelphoe, Act iii, Sc.
3, 77, (431.)...
Really, you have seen the old age of an eagle, -- Terence (185-159 BC) -- Heautontimoroumenos, Act iii, Sc.
2, 9, (520.)...
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.
-- Terence (185-159 BC) -- Adelphoe, Act iii, Sc. 3, 61, (415.)...
Look you, I am the most concerned in my own interests.
-- Terence (185-159 BC) -- Act iv, Sc. 1, 12, (636.)...
I took to my heels as fast as I could. -- Terence (185-159 BC) -- Act v, Sc. 2, 5, (844.)
Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
-- Terence (185-159 BC) -- Heautontimoroumenos, Act iv, Sc. 2, 8, (675.)...
This and a great deal more like it I have had to put up with.
-- Terence (185-159 BC) -- Act iv, Sc. 6, 8, (746.)...