CDZ Have you Read Cicero?

[Dr.Know]

Apparently he was very influential with the Enlightenment era writers, Locke, Kirk, Adams and all theose white dudes, which in turn made them popular among the Founding Fathers.

Here are a few quotations from that dead white guy:

“Never injure a friend, even in jest.”​

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“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”​

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“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”​

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“Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'”​

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“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”​

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“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:​

Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;​

Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;​

Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;​

Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;​

Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;​

Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”​

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“Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.”​

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“The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.”​

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“Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goes out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.”​

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“It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.”​

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“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”​

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“Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”​

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“Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.”​

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“It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.”​

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“The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.”​

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“Extreme justice is extreme injustice.”​

Wow superb,,,,,,there is nothing new under the sun

 

[Dr.Know]

Joe Biden and the entire Democrat Party

When I think of Democrats, I think of Cheech and Chong

 

[DudleySmith]

Jews were a significant demographic in the Roman Empire. The Babylonian cult went into decline as it alienated more and more Jews and so many converted to the Christian Jewish sect and assimilated. They were anywhere from 5% to 15% of the Roman empire, and probably over 20% of the eastern empire. Modern 'Judaism' was fabricated in the 2nd Century A.D., a consolidation of the dominant faction of the Pharisee sect, and an even less popular cult. The racial purity rubbish from the times of Ezra went into high gear under 'Orthodox' Judaism, and it had almost nothing in common with the real Torah and Moses, outside of some lip service.

And as usual, politicians rarely practice what they preached, and it's no different with Cicero. Lots of pithy one liners, though.

 

[sartre play]

Joe Biden and the entire Democrat Party

That's where you lose me, Not every registered Democrat Always vote for just one party,
or think only what one person tells them is the total truth.
WHEN IN FACT your daily complaints show that most have minds of there own.
From party line, to extreme,. most don't idolize any single human, or their plans.

 

[Dr.Know]

You succinctly dissembled the Democrat Party and their Deep State handlers,,,be careful. If you posted Cicero in China, you would be arrested for trying to de-program the brain dead.

 

[Dr.Know]

when people talk about "The Jews", what they really mean is a SMALL CLICHE of Zionists who dont give a rats ass about the common working jew arab ( yes they are arabs).

 

[whoisit]

this guy is a treasure trove of wisdom and clarity.

A few more quotes:

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.​

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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.​

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When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.​

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Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.​

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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.​

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Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.​

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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?​

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Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.​

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We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.​

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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.​

I have quoted this one many times. The Traitor is the Plaque.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

I have read Cicero in the original.

And?