# To our leaders

A bit of wisdom from an ancient leader:

> To a mechanical engineer, who promised to transport some heavy columns
> to the Capitol at small expense, he gave no mean reward for his invention,
> but refused to make use of it, saying: 
>
> "You must let me feed my poor commons."
>
> -- The Lives of the Twelve Caesars by C. Suetonius Tranquillus[1]

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[1] https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Vespasian*.html#18