More Wisdom from Rome's Greatest Lawyer

Folks,

Here is some more wisdom from ancient Rome's greatest lawyer (Marcus Tullius Cicero) back when the profession of law was an honorable one. That all changed of course once the plebians learned they could vote for themselves bread and circuses without consequences.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
(This was said by a virtual pagan before Christ was even born!)

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.
(I quoted this saying before, but it's always worth a re-read in these times. Indeed, think about this when contemplating Obamolech, Biden, Pelosi, et al.)

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
(Never was a truer statement said about this post modern, neo-pagan Amerika)

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
(Yet we continue to extol the muscular, the swift and the dexterous while ignoring careful reflection, virtuous character and dispassionate judgment.)

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]
(But the people of today's society can't stand the pain of discipline, and look whom they have elected to the Oval Office!)

A man of courage is also full of faith.
(Note that Cicero did NOT say a man of courage is a man of science.)

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed; as it grows older, it becomes stronger. [Lat., Omne malum nascens facile opprimitur; inveteratum fit pleurumque robustius.]
(Sadly we have failed to nip liberalism in the bub. We will now repeat the days of Maximillen Robespierre.)