The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions. (Cicero)

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions.

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