Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love.

Amantium irae amoris integratio est.

Terence

The Girl from Andros

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Topic

Reconciliation Relationship challenges Love

Speaker

Chremes

Author

Terence

Source

The Girl from Andros

Medium

Play

Language

Latin

Time

166 BC 160s BC 2nd century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Playwright Writer

From

Africa Roman Republic

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Original Citation

Terence. Andria [The Woman from Andros]. 166 BC, Rome, Italy.

Current Citation

Terence. Andria, edited by Sander M. Goldberg. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

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Another quote about Love

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Theodor Adorno

Minima Moralia

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Topic
Vulnerability Love

Author

Theodor Adorno
Source
Minima Moralia
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
German
Time
1951 1950s 20th century
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Original Citation

Adorno, Theodor. Minima Moralia: Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben [Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life]. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1951.

Current Citation

Adorno, Theodor. Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life, translated by E. F. N. Jephcott. Verso, 2020.

Another quote from Classical antiquity

There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man.

Sophocles

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Topic
Nature of man Man and animals

Author

Sophocles
Source
Antigone
Medium
Play
Genre
Tragic play Greek theater
Language
Greek
Time
441 BC 440s 5th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Sophocles. Ἀντιγόνη [Antigone]. c. 441 BC, Festival of Dionysus, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Sophocles. "Antigone." The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Mariner Books, 2002.

Another quote originally in Latin

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

Caesar Augustus

Quoted in Lives of the Caesars, by Suetonius

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Topic
Rome
Speaker
Caesar Augustus

Author

Suetonius
Source
Lives of the Caesars
Medium
Biography
Genre
Historical literature
Statement Type
Boast
Language
Latin
Time
121 120s 2nd century
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Augustus, Caesar. Quoted in De vita Caesarum [About the Life of the Caesars], written by Suetonius. c. 121.

Current Citation

Augustus, Caesar. Quoted in The Lives of the Caesars, written by Suetonius, translated by Catharine Edwards. Oxford University Press, 2009.