Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Miken, georgie has many parallels from history. bad ones. hitler, napoleon, alex. i am sure i will find more in history.
RANDOM CICERO POST
quote-"what i am mpore afraid of is lest, being ignorant of the true path to glory, you should think it glorious for you to have more power by yourself than all the rest of the people put together, and lest you should prefer being feared by your fellow citizens to being loved by them. and if you do think so, you are ignorant of the road to glory. for a citizen to be dear to his fellow citiaens, to DESERVEwell of the republic, to be praised, to be respected, to be loved, is glorious;but to be feared, and to be the object of hatred, is odious, detestable; and moreover,pregnant with WEAKNESS AND DECAY. and we see that, even in the play, the very man who said,
'what care i tho all men should hate my name, so long as fear accompanies their hate?'
found that it was a mischievous principle to act upon.
RANDOM CICERO POST
quote-"what i am mpore afraid of is lest, being ignorant of the true path to glory, you should think it glorious for you to have more power by yourself than all the rest of the people put together, and lest you should prefer being feared by your fellow citizens to being loved by them. and if you do think so, you are ignorant of the road to glory. for a citizen to be dear to his fellow citiaens, to DESERVEwell of the republic, to be praised, to be respected, to be loved, is glorious;but to be feared, and to be the object of hatred, is odious, detestable; and moreover,pregnant with WEAKNESS AND DECAY. and we see that, even in the play, the very man who said,
'what care i tho all men should hate my name, so long as fear accompanies their hate?'
found that it was a mischievous principle to act upon.
