Quotes by Robert Cecil

Robert Cecil

English statesman

Lived from: 1563 - 1612

Category: Politics Country: United Kingdom

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• A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.

  ― Robert Cecil
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• Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• comparisons
• consider
• examples
• forcible
• precept
• seventh

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