A Quote by Seneca the Younger

How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?

Seneca the Younger

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Seneca the Younger
Roman - Philosopher
4 BC - 65

A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason

Hugo Grotius

There is the work of great men and there is the work of little men. Therefore it is said, 'Some labor with their minds and some labor with their strength. Those who labor with their minds govern others; those who labor with their strength are governed by others.'1 Those who are governed by others support them; those who govern them are supported by them. This is a universal principle.

Mencius

Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others.

Theodore Roosevelt

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

Benjamin Franklin

Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.

Cormac McCarthy

A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.

Jean de la Bruyere

For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

Thomas Hobbes

Schools should be democratic public spheres. They should be places that educate people to be informed, to learn how to govern rather than be governed, to take justice seriously, to spur the radical imagination, to give them the tools that they need to be able to both relate to themselves and others in the wider world. I mean, at the heart of any education that matters, is a central question: How can you imagine a future much different than the present, and a future that basically grounds itself in questions of economic, political and social justice?

Henry Giroux

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

Jean de la Bruyere

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

Francois Rabelais

Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.

Lucretius

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

Publilius Syrus

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Miguel de Cervantes

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

Douglas Adams

When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.

Edmund Burke

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Golda Meir

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