Terence was brought to Rome as a slave by Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, who educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him.
Suus cuique mos Everyone has his own custom.
Spem pretio non emo (Terence) I do not buy mere hope.
Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto (Terence) I am human; I consider nothing human to be foreign to me.