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Cicero ignored the rule of law, having men executed without even a trial. No better than Caesar. He was full of himself, and heaped praise upon himself by exaggerating his "feats". Even more so than most politicians of his day, he was a pompous windbag.
Caesar was an accomplished general, and far more virtuous than Cicero. He had common sense, was pragmatic, and had a sound vision for Rome. He was both an outstanding military and political leader. The Senate's decision to sack Caesar in 50 B.C. was purely political and treacherous. Caesar was enormously popular with the Roman people, and a bunch of snivelling, perfidious, backstabbing senators decided he was too great of a political threat.
Cicero championed a farcical, ineffectual, incompetent, corrupt, obsolete aristocrat-controlled republic. He was shrill, elitist, Ivy League, draft dodging, and was self-ingratiating. His philosophy was stale and unoriginal. He was a 1st century B.C. John Kerry.
Cicero talked the talk, Caesar walked the walk.
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