Cicero said of Rome in an oration against his domestic enemies that “there was once such virtue in this republic, that brave men would repress mischievous citizens with severer chastisement than the most bitter enemy.”
Virtue isn’t a hot commodity these days. It does not pay well and cannot be bought or sold. But one doesn’t have to be a Ciceronian to se…
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