Cícero: Frases em inglês (página 3)

“A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”

“It is a great thing to know your vices.”

“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”

“Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.”

“I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.”

“When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.”

“Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere.

(No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.)”

“Freedom is participation in power.”

“Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.”
Qui tacet non utique fatetur, sed tamen verum est eum non negare.

“Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice”

“Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?”

“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”

“God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.”

“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.”

“Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”

“Ability without honor is useless.”

“a friend is a second self”

“Never injure a friend, even in jest.”

“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error”