Publius terentius afer quotes about change
Terence's quote, "Change your thoughts, and you change your world," encapsulates the powerful connection between our thoughts and the reality we experience..
Terence
Publius Terentius Afer (195/185–159 BC), more commonly referred to as Terence, was a comic playwright of the Roman Republic.
A man's fortune must first be changed from within.
A Berber born in or near Carthage, his comedies were first performed between 170 BC and 160 BC.
Quotes
Andria (The Lady of Andros)
- Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
- Of surpassing beauty and in the bloom of youth.
- Act I, scene 1, line 45 (72).
- Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit.
- Obsequiousness begets friends, truth hatred.
- Hinc illae lacrimae.
- Hence these tears.
- Variant translation: Hence all those tears shed.
- That is a true proverb which is wont to be commonly quoted, that "all had rather it were well for themselves than for another."
- Act II, scene 5, line 15 (426).
- Amantium irae amoris integratio est.
- Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love.
- Act III, scene 3, line 23 (555).
- Variant translation: Lovers’ rows make love whole again.
- Look you,