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  1. Popular theology ... is a massive inconsistency derived from ignorance.... The gods exist because nature herself has imprinted a conception of them on the minds of men.
    -- Cicero

    #Wisdom #Quotes #Cicero #God #Religion

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  2. The Reality of Dreams

    Throughout Human history, dreams have fascinated, inspired and disturbed us. Where do they come from? Why do they happen? What do they mean? Different civilisations have tried to answer these questions. The Ancient Mesopotamians thought of dreams as divine messages. The most well known Mesopotamian story is the Epic of Gilgamesh, where Gilgamesh receives dreams about the future. They also had dream temples, where people would go in order to sleep and receive these divine messages in their […]

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  3. A quotation from Cicero

    For indeed it is possible that a man may think well, and yet not be able to express his thoughts elegantly; but for any one to publish thoughts which he can neither arrange skillfully nor illustrate so as to entertain his reader, is an unpardonable abuse of letters and retirement: they, therefore, read their books to one another, and no one ever takes them up but those who wish to have the same license for careless writing allowed to themselves.
     
    [Fieri autem potest, ut recte quis sentiat et id quod sentit polite eloqui non possit; sed mandare quemquam litteris cogitationes suas, qui eas nec disponere nec inlustrare possit nec delectatione aliqua allicere lectorem, hominis est intemperanter abutentis et otio et litteris. Itaque suos libros ipsi legunt cum suis, nec quisquam attingit praeter eos, qui eandem licentiam scribendi sibi permitti volunt.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 1, ch. 3 (1.3) / sec. 6 (1.6) (45 BC) [tr. Yonge (1853)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #author #clarity #clique #communication #elegance #entertainment #expression #organization #selfindulgence #writing #writinggroup

  4. Hype for the Future 214/284: Chicago West (Inner Suburbs)

    Overview The traditional inner suburbs of the western Chicago area, many of whose amenities are often described as “Chicago West,” often refer to the communities of Cicero, Berwyn, Oak Park, River Forest, and Forest Park in the western portion of the inner region. Today, the communities are each directly integrated into the urban grid system based on the Chicago city grid with public transit services often related to the inner city. Cicero The community of Cicero is a western suburban […]

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  5. A quotation from Cicero

    In truth, in such a vast number of citizens, there is a great multitude of those men, who either, from fear of punishment, because they are conscious of their own misdeeds, are anxious for fresh changes and revolutions in the republic; or who, on account of some innate insanity of mind, feed upon the discords and seditions of the citizens; or else who, on account of the embarrassment of their estates and circumstances, had rather burn in one vast common conflagration, than in one which consumed only themselves.
     
    [Etenim in tanto civium numero magna multitudo est eorum qui aut propter metum poenae, peccatorum suorum conscii, novos motus conversionesque rei publicae quaerant, aut qui propter insitum quendam animi furorem discordiis civium ac seditione pascantur, aut qui propter implicationem rei familiaris communi incendio malint quam suo deflagrare.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Pro Sestio [For Publius Sestius], ch. 46 / sec. 99 (56-02 BC) [tr. Yonge (1891)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #bankruptcy #civildiscord #civildisorder #civilwar #criminals #discord #finances #financialruin #government #insanity #madness #overthrow #revolution #sedition

  6. A quotation from Cicero

    In truth, in such a vast number of citizens, there is a great multitude of those men, who either, from fear of punishment, because they are conscious of their own misdeeds, are anxious for fresh changes and revolutions in the republic; or who, on account of some innate insanity of mind, feed upon the discords and seditions of the citizens; or else who, on account of the embarrassment of their estates and circumstances, had rather burn in one vast common conflagration, than in one which consumed only themselves.
     
    [Etenim in tanto civium numero magna multitudo est eorum qui aut propter metum poenae, peccatorum suorum conscii, novos motus conversionesque rei publicae quaerant, aut qui propter insitum quendam animi furorem discordiis civium ac seditione pascantur, aut qui propter implicationem rei familiaris communi incendio malint quam suo deflagrare.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Pro Sestio [For Publius Sestius], ch. 46 / sec. 99 (56-02 BC) [tr. Yonge (1891)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #bankruptcy #civildiscord #civildisorder #civilwar #criminals #discord #finances #financialruin #government #insanity #madness #overthrow #revolution #sedition

  7. A quotation from Cicero

    In truth, in such a vast number of citizens, there is a great multitude of those men, who either, from fear of punishment, because they are conscious of their own misdeeds, are anxious for fresh changes and revolutions in the republic; or who, on account of some innate insanity of mind, feed upon the discords and seditions of the citizens; or else who, on account of the embarrassment of their estates and circumstances, had rather burn in one vast common conflagration, than in one which consumed only themselves.
     
    [Etenim in tanto civium numero magna multitudo est eorum qui aut propter metum poenae, peccatorum suorum conscii, novos motus conversionesque rei publicae quaerant, aut qui propter insitum quendam animi furorem discordiis civium ac seditione pascantur, aut qui propter implicationem rei familiaris communi incendio malint quam suo deflagrare.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Pro Sestio [For Publius Sestius], ch. 46 / sec. 99 (56-02 BC) [tr. Yonge (1891)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #bankruptcy #civildiscord #civildisorder #civilwar #criminals #discord #finances #financialruin #government #insanity #madness #overthrow #revolution #sedition

  8. A quotation from Cicero

    In truth, in such a vast number of citizens, there is a great multitude of those men, who either, from fear of punishment, because they are conscious of their own misdeeds, are anxious for fresh changes and revolutions in the republic; or who, on account of some innate insanity of mind, feed upon the discords and seditions of the citizens; or else who, on account of the embarrassment of their estates and circumstances, had rather burn in one vast common conflagration, than in one which consumed only themselves.
     
    [Etenim in tanto civium numero magna multitudo est eorum qui aut propter metum poenae, peccatorum suorum conscii, novos motus conversionesque rei publicae quaerant, aut qui propter insitum quendam animi furorem discordiis civium ac seditione pascantur, aut qui propter implicationem rei familiaris communi incendio malint quam suo deflagrare.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Pro Sestio [For Publius Sestius], ch. 46 / sec. 99 (56-02 BC) [tr. Yonge (1891)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #bankruptcy #civildiscord #civildisorder #civilwar #criminals #discord #finances #financialruin #government #insanity #madness #overthrow #revolution #sedition

  9. A quotation from Cicero

    In truth, in such a vast number of citizens, there is a great multitude of those men, who either, from fear of punishment, because they are conscious of their own misdeeds, are anxious for fresh changes and revolutions in the republic; or who, on account of some innate insanity of mind, feed upon the discords and seditions of the citizens; or else who, on account of the embarrassment of their estates and circumstances, had rather burn in one vast common conflagration, than in one which consumed only themselves.
     
    [Etenim in tanto civium numero magna multitudo est eorum qui aut propter metum poenae, peccatorum suorum conscii, novos motus conversionesque rei publicae quaerant, aut qui propter insitum quendam animi furorem discordiis civium ac seditione pascantur, aut qui propter implicationem rei familiaris communi incendio malint quam suo deflagrare.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Pro Sestio [For Publius Sestius], ch. 46 / sec. 99 (56-02 BC) [tr. Yonge (1891)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #bankruptcy #civildiscord #civildisorder #civilwar #criminals #discord #finances #financialruin #government #insanity #madness #overthrow #revolution #sedition

  10. A quotation from Cicero

    Those very philosophers even in the books which they write about despising glory, put their own names on the title-page. In the very act of recording their contempt for renown and notoriety, they desire to have their own names known and talked of.
     
    [Ipsi illi philosophi etiam illis libellis, quos de contemnenda gloria scribunt, nomen suum inscribunt; in eo ipso in quo praedicationem nobilitatemque despiciunt, praedicari de se, ac nominari volunt.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Pro Archia Poeta [For Archia the Poet], ch. 11 / sec. 26 (62 BC) [tr. Yonge (1856)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #proarchia #ambition #applause #celebrity #ego #fame #glory #hypocrisy #hypocrite #notoriety #philosophers #pride #publicity #renown #vainglory #vanity

  11. A quotation from Cicero

    Those very philosophers even in the books which they write about despising glory, put their own names on the title-page. In the very act of recording their contempt for renown and notoriety, they desire to have their own names known and talked of.
     
    [Ipsi illi philosophi etiam illis libellis, quos de contemnenda gloria scribunt, nomen suum inscribunt; in eo ipso in quo praedicationem nobilitatemque despiciunt, praedicari de se, ac nominari volunt.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Pro Archia Poeta [For Archia the Poet], ch. 11 / sec. 26 (62 BC) [tr. Yonge (1856)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #proarchia #ambition #applause #celebrity #ego #fame #glory #hypocrisy #hypocrite #notoriety #philosophers #pride #publicity #renown #vainglory #vanity

  12. A quotation from Cicero

    Those very philosophers even in the books which they write about despising glory, put their own names on the title-page. In the very act of recording their contempt for renown and notoriety, they desire to have their own names known and talked of.
     
    [Ipsi illi philosophi etiam illis libellis, quos de contemnenda gloria scribunt, nomen suum inscribunt; in eo ipso in quo praedicationem nobilitatemque despiciunt, praedicari de se, ac nominari volunt.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Pro Archia Poeta [For Archia the Poet], ch. 11 / sec. 26 (62 BC) [tr. Yonge (1856)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #proarchia #ambition #applause #celebrity #ego #fame #glory #hypocrisy #hypocrite #notoriety #philosophers #pride #publicity #renown #vainglory #vanity

  13. A quotation from Cicero

    Those very philosophers even in the books which they write about despising glory, put their own names on the title-page. In the very act of recording their contempt for renown and notoriety, they desire to have their own names known and talked of.
     
    [Ipsi illi philosophi etiam illis libellis, quos de contemnenda gloria scribunt, nomen suum inscribunt; in eo ipso in quo praedicationem nobilitatemque despiciunt, praedicari de se, ac nominari volunt.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Pro Archia Poeta [For Archia the Poet], ch. 11 / sec. 26 (62 BC) [tr. Yonge (1856)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #proarchia #ambition #applause #celebrity #ego #fame #glory #hypocrisy #hypocrite #notoriety #philosophers #pride #publicity #renown #vainglory #vanity

  14. A quotation from Cicero

    Those very philosophers even in the books which they write about despising glory, put their own names on the title-page. In the very act of recording their contempt for renown and notoriety, they desire to have their own names known and talked of.
     
    [Ipsi illi philosophi etiam illis libellis, quos de contemnenda gloria scribunt, nomen suum inscribunt; in eo ipso in quo praedicationem nobilitatemque despiciunt, praedicari de se, ac nominari volunt.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Pro Archia Poeta [For Archia the Poet], ch. 11 / sec. 26 (62 BC) [tr. Yonge (1856)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #proarchia #ambition #applause #celebrity #ego #fame #glory #hypocrisy #hypocrite #notoriety #philosophers #pride #publicity #renown #vainglory #vanity

  15. @xris @HadasWeiss

    Couldnt get a clear grip on your interests from your feed, so came here to say this too. Also markets ( #invisibleHand - theory of moral sentiments, and the wealth of nations) , #qualityControl, and #openBSD, I reckon. I'm delving these at the moment and it's super interesting. Also Enterprise Resource Planning software suites (specifically #ERP5 but it might prove too deep for my delving ability) and sometimes #cybernetics (which goes back to #mathematical #complexity and #communicationTheory ).

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  16. Cicero gegen Catilina, äh, Trump

    Symbolbild: Markus Tullius Cicero im Senat

    Im Jahr 63 v. Chr. hielt Cicero, der römische Konsul, seine berühmten Catilinarischen Reden gegen Lucius Sergius Catilina, einen skrupellosen Verschwörer, der die Republik mit Gewalt an sich reißen wollte. Cicero enthüllte Catilinas Pläne, seine Verachtung für Gesetze und seine Bereitschaft, den Staat in den Abgrund zu reißen – und forderte seine Vertreibung.

    Heute, im Jahr 2025, steht die Welt vor einer ähnlichen Bedrohung: Donald Trump, ein bereits verurteilter Straftäter, kehrt an die Macht zurück, untergräbt die Verfassung und setzt seine Rhetorik der Spaltung und Einschüchterung fort. Wie Catilina ignoriert er jede Norm und betrachtet die Demokratie als Werkzeug für seine eigenen Zwecke. Diese Rede überträgt Ciceros scharfe Anklage auf den Mann, der Amerikas Republik gefährdet.

    Rede Ciceros an Trump

    Wie lange noch, Donald Trump, wirst du die Geduld der freien Welt missbrauchen? Wie lange noch wird dein wütender Größenwahn unser aller Sicherheit bedrohen? Bis zu welchem Punkt glaubst du, dass das Recht und die Verfassung deiner Willkür weichen werden?

    Nicht einmal maskiert ist dein Verrat! Wir alle sahen dich, wie du deine Schergen zum Angriff auf das Kapitol anstacheltest, wie du die Feinde der Demokratie begnadigtest, als wären sie Helden und nicht Verräter. Nun, mit einem Eid, den du nicht zu halten gedenkst, hast du dich erneut zum Tyrannen aufgeschwungen.

    Glaubst du etwa, wir wüssten nicht, wer du bist? Ein überführter Verbrecher, ein Demagoge, ein Feind der Republik! Dein Name ist bereits mit Lüge, Betrug und Gewalt besudelt. Kein Gesetz ist dir heilig, kein Eid bindet dich, kein Recht hält dich auf.

    Doch täusche dich nicht! Die, die jetzt schweigen, tun es nicht aus Furcht, sondern aus Verachtung. Das Volk mag zögern, es mag ermüdet sein, aber es sieht dich. Und eines Tages, wenn die Fesseln der Resignation gesprengt sind, wenn das letzte Maß an Betrug gefüllt ist, wird die Republik antworten.

    Catilina wurde vertrieben. Auch dein Machtverlust ist nur eine Frage der Zeit.

    #Catilina #Cicero #DemokratieInGefahr #DonaldTrump #Geschichte #ProtestbewegungUSA #Römer #RechtsstaatBedroht #TrumpUndFaschismus #TrumpZweiteAmtszeit #USPolitik2025 #WiderstandGegenTrump #yellowCasa