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Marcus Tullius Cicero born 106 BC, died 43 BC in Alpino, Italy, was a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist.

"The evil was not in the bread and circuses, per se, but in the willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men for full bellies and the excitement of the games which would serve to distract them from the other human hungers which bread and circuses can never appease." Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense." Marcus Tullius Cicero

"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 is 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." Marcus Tullius Cicero

The real treason of society is when every man covets his neighbors goods and seek to benefit at his expense. When every man betrays his neighbor by desiring their own government to take from their neighbor so that he may benefit a nation dooms itself and all become Workers of Iniquity.

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 [[Marcus Tullius Cicero]]  born 106 BC, died 43 BC in Alpino, Italy, was a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist.
-: "The evil was not in the bread and circuses, per se, but in the willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men for full bellies and the excitement of the games which would serve to distract them from the other human hungers which bread and circuses can never appease."
+: "The evil was not in the [[bread and circuses]], per se, but in the willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men for full bellies and the excitement of the games which would serve to distract them from the other human hungers which bread and circuses can never appease." [[Marcus Tullius Cicero]]
-: "Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense."
+: "Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense." [[Marcus Tullius Cicero]]
-: "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 is 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."
+: "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 is 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." [[Marcus Tullius Cicero]]
 The real treason of society is when every man [[Covet|covets]] his neighbors goods and seek to [[Benefits|benefit]] at his expense. When every man betrays his neighbor by desiring their own government to take from their neighbor so that he may benefit a nation dooms itself and all become [[Workers of Iniquity]].

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