The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, … - Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Sometimes, music is like poop. It just has to come out.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

Balanced, Land, Lest, Officialdom, Political, Rome

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It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

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For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

Men, People, Public, Raised, Tyrants, Ungoverned

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

Grace, Graceful, Virtuous

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.

Freely, Moving, Rustling, Survive, Tyrants, World Government

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.

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