Corruptio optimi pessima (port.)
Em Filosofia, os romanos nunca foram páreos para os gregos, mas, com o seu instinto prático e amor à concisão linguística, eles nos legaram uma nutritiva colheita de aforismos latinos. Este é um deles: “a corrupção do melhor é o pior”. Os gregos amavam debater sobre o que ditos como esse significam, e assim […]
Corruptio optimi pessima
The Romans never became the philosophical equals of the Greeks, but, with their instinct for the practical and love of linguistic economy, they gave us a nourishing harvest of Latin aphorisms. This is one of them: ‘the corruption of the best is the worst’. The Greeks and the Germans love to expostulate for pages on […]
On the abused, the corrupted and the exceptional
Abusus non tollit usum. Corruptio optimi pessima. Exceptio probat regulam. These three Latin adages have helped me to stay sane more perhaps that the thousands of pages of philosophy I have read. In short, they remind me not to forswear use because of abuse; not to overlook excellence because of the horror of its corruption; […]