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So much wisdom from the ancients lost over the last decades! Put liberal arts back in our kids’ curriculum!

Cicero writes that we are born with an innate moral sense that is “natural to our constitutions” and, if allowed to mature, would “naturally conduct us to a happy life.”
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What prevents us from cultivating the seeds of virtue are what Cicero calls the “perturbations of the mind”—including anger, envy, and lust for revenge. Those who are overcome by anger, Cicero writes, have lost command over themselves;
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