Terence
More commonly referred to as Terence, was a comic playwright of the Roman Republic.
I only wish I may see your head stroked down with a slipper.
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
I did not care one straw.
This and a great deal more like it I have had to put up with.
There are vicissitudes in all things.
Nullumst iam dictum quod non dictum sit prius.
I am a man; I consider nothing human alien to me.
If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
The highest law is often the greatest wrong.
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.
Amantium irae amoris integratio est.
Immortal gods! how much does one man excel another! What a difference there is between a wise person and a fool!
Diem adimere aegritudinem hominibus.
Nil tam difficile est quin quaerendo investigari possiet.
Jupiter, now assuredly is the time when I could readily consent to be slain, 4 lest life should sully this ecstasy with some disaster.
I am a human and consider nothing human alien to me.