Marcus Tullius Cicero (c. 106-43 BCE)
“[W]hat can be more splendid than a state governed by worth, where the man who gives orders to others is not the servant of greed, where the leader himself has embraced all the values which he preaches and recommends to his citizens, where he imposes no laws on the people which he does not obey himself, but rather presents his own life to his fellows as a code of conduct?”
- From The Republic by Cicero (Book 1, chapter 52), translated by Niall Rudd (Oxford University Press, 1998).
