Leonardo Bruni Quotes

Leonardo Bruni was an Italian Renaissance humanist, historian, and statesman, chancellor of the Florentine Republic for two long terms in the early fifteenth century and one of the foremost civic humanists of his age. He produced elegant Latin translations of Aristotle, Plato, Plutarch, and Demosthenes that reopened Greek philosophy and history to the Latin West, and his History of the Florentine People applied the methods of classical historiography to modern republican history. The quotes below are attributed to Leonardo Bruni, organized by topic.