Op-Ed Columnist - Are We Rome? Tu Betchus! - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Columnist - Are We Rome? Tu Betchus! - NYTimes.com: "Avoid whatever is approved of by the mob, and things that are the gift of chance. Whenever circumstance brings some welcome thing your way, stop in suspicion and alarm ...They are snares. ... we think these things are ours when in fact it is we who are caught. That track leads to precipices; life on that giddy level ends in a fall"