Posted on 10/30/2008 5:48:25 AM PDT by 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 could have sworn I typed BC. Oh well.
Thank you. How true. Learn to work and be useful to someone. That is why I just cannot bring myself to take a government job.
Yeah yeah yeah. I type too fast.
Of course we do. ANd we’re making a big comeback . . . at least in private schools . . .. but then, Big Brother, er uh, Obama, will probably outlaw those.
Thanks for the quotation! I have already shared it with colleagues!
98 years too fast?.............
Sometimes. I am secretly Superman in another life.
Unfortunately, although Cicero was correct in that and much else, he did not control a political gang or army necessary by then to rule Rome. Caesar did.
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