ANCIENT WISDOM: CICERO KNEW BEST

The writings of Cicero | 55 B.C. | Cicero

[MrChips]

Hi guys. O.K., so I am a Latin and History teacher. But I ran across these words and I couldn't resist sharing them. Post them on your refrigerator. The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

Cicero, 55 A.D.

[I'm ALL Right!]

Amen and Amen.

[Entrepreneur]

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

[Red Badger]

Cicero in 55 A.D. eh?.............He died in 47 BC.............

[Da Coyote]

Good quote. As one who took Latin in HS (and actually really liked it) - methinks we need more of the classics and less boomer bullsh*t). Admission: I’m one of those boomers.

[Red Badger]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero

43 BC.......

[Diogenesis]

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.
But it cannot survive treason from within.
An enemy at the gates is less formidable,
for he is known and carries his banner openly.
But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely,
his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys,
heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor;
he speaks in accents familiar to his victims,
and he wears their face and their arguments,
he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
He rots the soul of a nation,
he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city,
he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
A murderer is less to be feared."
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

A vampire moth in Siberia sucks blood from a researcher's hand.

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Vampire Congressmen and Senators suck all the life and blood from every American's body.

[mewzilla]

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

[JohnBovenmyer]

Shouldn’t that be 55BC?

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Hmmm. Cicero wasn’t breathing in 55 AD, never mind writing that.

[yankeedame]

Hi guys. O.K., so I am a Latin...teacher....

(surprised) Well, dip me in detergent, I didn't even know they still had Latin teachers.

[free me]

I think that quote has an extra line at the end as well.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Snopes doesn’t always get it right but they say over there it might have been Taylor Caldwell, not Cicero.

[CatoRenasci]

Must have been 55 B.C.....

"Tully," as he was known in the 18th century, was a favorite of the Founders, especially for his writings on, and defense of, the Roman Republic.

[yankeedame]

"Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing."
--Edmund Burke

[mewzilla]

I read your mind. And those are just the traitorous bloodsuckers I was thinking of.

[monocle]

If we have dead voters, why can’t we have dead authors?

[mewzilla]

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

Alexis de Tocqueville

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Walt Kelly

[Apercu]

No but Acornus Maximus was using his name in the Roman elections.

[choctaw man]

“Opportunity is often missed because it is dressed in overalls and disguised as work.” - Thomas Edison