[widowithfoursons]

Cicero wept for Rome, and never gave up the idea of its former greatness as a Republic. As Consul of Rome (President), he did all he could to reign in the excesses of mob rule (democracy). When he was finally assasinated, I think the spirit of the Republic died with him. I sure can't wait to chat with him one day.

[RightWhale]

Cicero is the kind of person who can advise a person how to govern an unruly province one minute and how to lay in a stone colonnade in the garden the next. What is it? It's that individual men and women actually do these things. Somebody has to decide and mistakes are expensive. A person has to be ready to fill in at any time in anything. You never know what you will be required or asked to do.

[I'm ALL Right!]

If they haven't already had to read these by university level, I read each of these books in one afternoon...should be required reading, IMO(especially in this world environment!)

Night - Elie Wiesel
Brave New World - Huxley