Cicero: Zitate auf Englisch

Cicero war römischer Politiker, Anwalt, Schriftsteller und Philosoph. Zitate auf Englisch.
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“What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.”

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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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.”

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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.)”

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quelle: On Old Age, On Friendship & On Divination

“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.

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Paulus, L, 17

“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.”

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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.”

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Marcus Tullius Cicero