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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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Are you going to say that the Aristocratic Republic which some checks and ballances is worst then an outright dictatorship?
Caeser was also a looter, murderer, and plunderer. He may have walked the walk but in by book it should be right to the Gallows.
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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.
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I never said he was a perfect man. I am sure he has done numerous things that I would deam immoral and wrong. But it does not change the fact that Cicero was the greatest proponent of Individual Liberty during the late years of the Republic. Caeser was just a power hungrey dictator who by turning the Republic into an Empire caused the destruction of a once great civilization.
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Caesar was an accomplished general, and far more virtuous than Cicero. He had common sense, was pragmatic, and had a sound vision for Rome.
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He was one of the many Hitlers of his day, how can you pretend to call him virtuous!