My friend Andy Owen, speaker, copywriter extraordinaire and good pal sent me this:
“The budget should be balanced and the Treasury should be refilled.
Public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled.
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 BC
“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”
George Bernard Shaw
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This doesn't appear to be an accurate quote from Cicero. The actual quote was, “The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall”.
See, http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/c/cicero-plan.htm and a number of other websites.
I am the only person old enough to remember what Cicero said, which was “Gordon Brown sua monstraque delenda sunt” to which Cato the Elder said, “Bonus vir, filius meus.”
Latin is the reason I walked out of University.
Good one on enlightenment and it helps a lot.
Thanks,
Karim – Mind Power