"Magistrature" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that stand so well affected towards applause and fame themselves own they cast away very extraordinary pleasures, when they decline, magistrature, public offices, and the favor and confidences of princes, from whom Democritus once said the grandest blessings of human life are derived? For he will never induce any mortal to believe, that he that could so highly value and please ...
— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch |
