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“Every citizen is king under a citizen king.
[Fr., Tout citoyen est roi sous un roi citoyen.]”
Charles Simon Favart Quotes Source: Les Trois Sultanes (II, 3)
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“There was a king of Thule,
Was faithful till the grave,
To whom his mistress dying,
A golden goblet gave.
[Ger., Es war ein Konig in Tule
Gar treu bis an das Grab,
Dem sterbend seine Buhle
Einen gold'nen Becher gab.]”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes Source: Faust--The King of Thule, (Bayard Taylor's translation)
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“As ourselves your empires fall,
And every kingdom hath a grave.”
William Habington Quotes Source: Night
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“She governs but she does not reign.
[Fr., Elle gouvernait, mais elle ne regnait pas.]”
Charles Jean Henault Quotes Source: Memoirs (161), said of Mem. des Ursins, favorite of Philip V of Spain
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“The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach.
[The Royal Crown cures not the headache.]”
George Herbert Quotes Source: Jacula Prudentum
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“The rule
Of the many is not well. One must be chief
In war and one the king.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. II, l. 253), (Bryant's translation)
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“Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished.
[Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Epistles (I, 2, 14)
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“On the king's gate the moss grew gray;
The king came not. They call'd him dead;
And made his eldest son, one day,
Slave in his father's stead.”
Helen Hunt Jackson (Helen Hunt) Quotes Source: Coronation
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“God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine,
For on his throne his sceptre do they sway;
And as their subjects ought them to obey,
So kings should feare and serve their God againe.”
James I of England Quotes Source: Sonnet Addressed to his son, Prince Henry
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“Though good faith should be banished from the rest of the world,
it should be found in the mouths of kings.
[Fr., Si la bonne foi etait bannie du reste du monde, il faudrait
qu'on la trouvat dans la bouche des rois.]”
Jean II ("Le Bon") Quotes Source: see "Biographie Universelle"
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“The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary
commonwealth.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes Source: Life of Milton
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“Princes that would their people should do well
Must at themselves begin, as at the head;
For men, by their example, pattern out
Their limitations, and regard of laws:
A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.”
Ben Jonson Quotes Source: Cynthia's Revels (act V, sc. 3)
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“A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his
government is groping.”
Ben Jonson Quotes Source: Discoveries--Illiteratus Princeps
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“They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship.
The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a
Prince as soon as his groom.”
Ben Jonson Quotes Source: Discoveries--Illiteratus Princeps
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“Over all good things certain, this is sure indeed,
Suffer not the old King, for we know the breed.”
Rudyard Kipling Quotes Source: The Old Issue, in the "Five Nations"
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“'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor
With a hairy old crown on 'er 'ead?
She 'as ships on the foam--she 'as millions at 'ome,
An' she pays us poor beggars in red.”
Rudyard Kipling Quotes Source: The Widow at Windsor
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“The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is
made up of very hard but very polished people.
[Fr., La cour est comme un edifice bati de marbre; je veux dire
qu'elle est composee d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis.]”
Jean de la Bruyere Quotes Source: Les Caracteres (VIII)
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“Ah! vainest of all things
Is the gratitude of kings.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Belisarius (st. 8)
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“He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign.
[Fr., Qui ne sait dissimuler, ne sait regner.]”
Louis XI Quotes Source: see Roche et Chasles--"Hist. de France", vol. II, p. 30
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“I am the State.
[Fr., L'etat c'est moi.]”
Louis XI Quotes Source: see Roche et Chasles--"Hist. de France", vol. II, p. 30
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“He who knows how to dissimulate knows how to reign.
[Fr., Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare.]”
Vicentius Lupanus (Vincent de La Loupe) Quotes Source: De Magistratibus & Praefecturis Francorum (lib. I)
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“His fair large front and eye sublime declared
Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks
Round from his parted forelock manly hung
Clustering but not beneath his shoulders broad.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 300)
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“'Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.
- Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,”
Michael Eyquen de Montaigne Quotes Source: Essays--Of the Inconveniences of Greatness
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“A crown! what is it?
It is to bear the miseries of a people!
To bear the miseries of a people!
And sink beneath a load of splendid care!”
Hannah More Quotes Source: Daniel (pt. VI)
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“St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France.
Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense."”
Old Song Quotes Source: Black-letter Ballad, London, 1512
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