Plebeians Quotes
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Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
William Shakespeare -
Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.
William Shakespeare
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To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Historians of the sentimental school have sometimes regretted that royalty became absolute, while at the same time rejoicing that it installed plebeians in office. They deceive themselves. Royalty exalted plebeians just because it aimed at becoming absolute; it became absolute because it had exalted plebeians.
Bertrand de Jouvenel -
The concept that flourished during the most glorious periods of republican Rome and that appeared in the Twelve Tables of the Law as one of the first, though as yet imperfect, affirmations of the rights of man, inspired the struggle between patricians and plebeians.
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta