Марк Туллий Цицерон: Цитаты на английском языке

“A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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.)”

Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Freedom is participation in power.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice”

Marcus Tullius Cicero Об обязанностях

“Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?”

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Ability without honor is useless.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero

“a friend is a second self”

Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Never injure a friend, even in jest.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero