True law is right reason in agreement with nature;. . . it summons to duty by its commands, … - Marcus Tullius Cicero

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It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

True law is right reason in agreement with nature;. . . it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions. . . It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

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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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