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inertis est nescire, quid liceat sibi. Id facere, laus est, quod decet; non, quod licetit is the act of the indolent not to know what he may lawfully do. It is praiseworthy to do what is becoming, and not merely what is lawful (Seneca)
laus est facere quod decet, non quod licetit is doing what we ought to do, and not merely doing what we may do, that is the ground of praise
libertas est potestas faciendi id quod jure licetliberty consists in the power of doing what the law permits (Cicero)
licet quot vis vivendo condere sæcla; mors æterna tamen nilo minus illa manebityou may live to complete as many generations as you will, nevertheless, that everlasting death will still be waiting (Lucretius)
licet superbus ambules pecunia, Fortuna non mutat genusthough you walk proud of your money, yet Fortune has not changed your birth (Horace)
licet, etiamsi, quamquam, tametsi, etsialthough
licet, fas estit is right
licet, licetgranted that
minimum decet libere cui multum licethe who has great power should use it lightly (Seneca)
nam nunc mores nihil faciunt quod licet, nisi quod lubetnowadays it is the fashion to make nothing of what is proper, but only what is pleasant (Plautus)
nobis non licet esse tam disertis, qui Musas colimus severioreswe who cultivate the Muses of a graver spirit cannot indulge ourselves in such license (Martial)
non convivere, nec videre saltem, non audire licet; nec urbe tota quisquam est tam prope, tam proculque nobisI may not live with him, nor even see him or hear him; in all the city there is no one so near me and so far away (Martial)
Non licetIt is not allowed
non licet in bello bis peccarein war, it is not permitted to err twice
non licet omnibus adire Corinthumnot everyone is permitted to go to Corinth (i.e., we cannot all be wealthy or have the same opportunities) (after Horace)
 

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