"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit."
— Caecilius Statius

January 1, 1970

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Quoted in several English sources as a Greek proverb or aphorism, without citation. Compare the Latin of Caecilius Statius: Serit arbores, quae saeclo prosint alteri. ("He sows the seed of trees that they may be a profit to another age.")