Patterns Repeat ~ but so few remember!

The purpose of this [Once] Daily [Now Weekly] SMS-blog is to expose warnings and patterns from the past — to remedy the amnesia that Ecclesiastes lamented:

There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after. (Old Testament | Ecclesiastes 1:11; side bar*)

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The voices will be selected from a wide variety of writers from every nation, kindred, tongue, people, and time that expose the recycling agenda of domination and destruction.

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As of May 1, 2022, with the rapid deterioration of world conditions, Voices will feature, each Sunday, a prophetic voice concerning the last days. As you read, count the ways the last days' prophecies are manifesting in daily news and in the many exposés of things once hidden! As of January 1, 2023, the focus will be on Praise, Promises, and Freedom. As of January 2024 the focus will be on the manner of kings, rulers, power, pride, and persuasion.


Monday, July 19, 2021

#139: Money Woes

Polybius (ca 203-120 BC)
… at Carthage, nothing that results in profit is regarded as disgraceful.*

Cicero (106-43 BC)
Endless money forms the sinews of war.**

Horace (65-8 BC)
Money madness is the basic disease of Rome.***  

Petronius (ca 27-66 AD)
What power has law where only money rules?****

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*Will Durant, The Story of Civilization: Part III, Caesar and Christ, p. 414
**Philippics, Oration V, sc. 5
***Will Durant, The Story of Civilization: Part III, Caesar and Christ, p. 245
**** Satyricon, Cap. XIV