Terence Quotes
Obsequiousness begets friends, truth hatred.
Publius Terentius Afer, 195/185–159 BC, Terence, Ancient Roman Playwright from Carthage, The Lady of Andros
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This is one of the proverbs of King Solomon of the Jews, son of King David. This quotation urges a leader to avoid advisors and appointees who do not tell the truth.
Spinoza’s ideas were considered so radical and dangerous that he was the only man in history who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims. In addition to being a philosophjer and theologian, Spinmoza was one the the leading scientific experts in optics and the grinding of lenses for schientif instruments and eye glasses. (The lens grinders were the opticians of the era. Both before and after his excummunications his friends were scientists, philosopners and mathematicians.
Publius Terentius Afer (c. 195/185 – c. 159? BC), better known in English as Terence, was a Roman African playwright during the Roman Republic. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. Terence abruptly died, around the age of 25, likely in Greece or on his way back to Rome, due to shipwreck or disease. He was supposedly on his way to explore and find more plots to base his comedies on. Terence's legacy is one that includes his plays being heavily used to learn to speak and write in Latin during the Middle Ages and Renaissance Period, as well as to be imitated by Shakespeare in some of his plays.
