It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect … - Marcus Tullius Cicero

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We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

Bad, Democracy, Evil, Freedom, Suspect

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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.

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

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

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