For Those Who Think They Know Everything – and for those who know they do not –
If you really need a nanny to take care of you and tell you what to do and change your diapers – that’s all fine and dandy. Go ahead with your bad self – but responsible adults should be left alone.
Speaking of new discoveries –
Cicero lived a long time ago. So did a lot of other people.
So what did this guy Cicero have to say to us ? Dig this from Cicero:
“The more laws, the less justice.”
“He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason”
“A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.”
“Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.”
“Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.”
“Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.”
“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.”
“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?”
“To be ignorant of what happened before you were born… is to live the life of a child for ever.”
And just who was this
Marcus Tillius Cicero
you ask ?
A really old guy who wrote stuff wearing a toga a long time ago.
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