They are Plato, Cicero, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Charles Montesquieu. ... Plato believed that the average person can't make good political decisions and should be left out of the decision making process. ... Montesquieu refined the ideas of Plato and Cicero into three basic points. ... He believed that everyone has the right to life, liberty, and property and no others can infringe on those rights. ... However the man which I think had the most influence on the government today is Cicero. ...

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If it weren't for Brutus the conspirators would have gone to get Cicero and chances are Cicero would not have agreed and possibly sided with Caesar and blown their cover. ... When Cassius had tried to rally ideas about Antony and Cicero, Brutus shut him down, because Brutus's goal was to knock Caesar out of the box with minimal impact on everyday life. As he said, he was doing it for the good of Rome, so why would he start randomly slaughtering Romans that posed a small but plausible threat. ...

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Cassius thinks that Cicero is a good and honorable man that should be included, but as soon as he nominates Cicero to join the group, Brutus steps in and says, "O, name him not! ... Instead of contesting Brutus, Cassius just lets it pass and concedes to not permitting Cicero to join the group. ... This is a good idea and it should be used, but Brutus shows his precedence over Cassius by instantaneously replying, "Good reasons must by force give place by better -(4.3.233). ... Cassius, who has a good argument, does not even try to contest Brutus. ... His life was gentle and the elements So mixe...

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Petrarch began to research earlier writers, for example, Cicero. ... Petrarch wrote lyric poetry dealing with individuals; he wanted to share knowledge for the public good. This was certainly a newer way of life. ... He was a life long friend of Petrarch. ... The Decameron was about life in Italy during the plague. ...

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A little competition can be good though. ... However, the Latin writings could only be the classical Latin of Cicero and Virgil, not the changing Latin of the churches. ... With time, comes good things. ... New ideas, new ways of life, new ways of expressing ones self all emerged during this time. Without the Renaissance it is safe to say that many of our own ideas, ways of life, and art forms would not exist today....

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