"He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!"

Seneca on kings   

"Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle."

Burke, Edmund on tyranny   

"Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments."

Franklin, Benjamin on pride   

"The king is the man who can."

Carlyle, Thomas on ability
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"There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself."

Chatham, William Pitt The Elder, Lord on royalty   

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"The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects."

Motto on leadership   

"The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred."

Seneca on kings   

"Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause."

Dryden, John on kings   

""There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands". "

Plato on   

"The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen."

Arundale, George S. on knowledge   

"The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy."

Ashurnasirpal on kings   

"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his."

Keller, Helen on kings
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"Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works."

Penn, William on kings