clean book cover on sage wisdom

Cicero on Social Media

Mike May, Editor

Mike May has a passion for understanding how things work. This suited his engineering career well, but was redirected when he came to realize that neither he, nor anyone he knew, had more than a superficial understanding of how history and society works, specifically those characteristics or foundational assumptions that most people have come to know and believe society should have. Like “democracy is good,” or “freedom of speech is a right we should protect,” or “caring for your family is a natural responsibility.” How did our society come to these conclusions, and why do some other societies arrive at something different? This lead him on a decades long literary odyssey spanning tens of thousands of pages of works written over the last three millennia. The seeds of this book were planted upon discovering in old or ancient texts the surprising frequency of answers to seemingly modern problems. Mike practices engineering in the field of low-carbon energy. He resides in Tennessee with his wife Claire and their four children: Hope, Elijah, Zechariah, and Joseph.

Shakespeare’s opinion on Surviving Adolescence; Darwin’s thoughts on Diet and Muscle Growth; Jesus on how to get Promoted at Work; Marcus Aurelius on Finding Purpose; Pliny on Parenting; Adam Smith on High Taxes; and Cicero on Social Media. This book of quotations shows that we might be surprised to know how many of today’s seemingly modern problems have been solved hundreds or thousands of years ago.

live in USA; any gender; age 25-65

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