#MarcusTulliusCicero was born on #ThisDayInHistory in 106 BCE. Cicero's eclectic mix of #Neoplatonism, #Scepticism, & #Stoicism is interesting to philosophers, and his innovative mastery of #Latin helped to launch the #Renaissance once his work was reintroduced by #Petrarch.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 43 BCE, #MarcusTulliusCicero was killed. A #Roman statesman (#Cicero suppressed #CatilinarianConspiracy) & syncretic/#neoplatonic #philosopher, he backed #Pompey, so under the #SecondTriumvirate he was murdered, head and hands displayed publically in Rome.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 106 BCE was born #MarcusTulliusCicero, Roman scholar and statesman. #Cicero left behind a vast corpus of literature on philosophy and politics that contains an almost surprising number of little gems like this one I picked for our #MidnightMeditations.

Thought for the Day. #LyonStrategic #MarcusTulliusCicero

The more #laws, the less justice
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For the function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and #evil; whereas, inasmuch as all things morally wrong are evil, trickery prefers the evil to the good
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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
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