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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.
I proceeded in my national mission, seeking to pave the way for an understanding between His Majesty and the other ruling princes of Arabia.
If I had power over the Jews, as our princes and cities have, I would deal severely with their lying mouth
Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.
It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.
The more princes abstain from touching the wealth of their people, the greater will be their resources in the wants of the state.
Is it any wonder why Princes & Kings, Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings, When ordinary people who are like you and me, Are the builders of their destiny...
Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not
To wound the fame of princes, if it find
But any blemish in their lives to work on.
In respect to foresight and firmness, the people are more prudent, more stable, and have better judgement than princes.
Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.
Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.
One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.
The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time.
Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.
Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than the maintenance of the laws.
Both princes and princesses belong in palaces of power, but the doors won't always open unless you fight for your rights.
Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil.
Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.
[My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She thought all artists little better than lunatics.
The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.
Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.
Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes and prelates who reigned in the capital of the East was rejected in the purer schools of Rome and Alexandria.
I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.
Girls may love movies about fairytale princes, but their most captivating romance is with their friends.
We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.
For me, the Parc des Princes is special, somewhere I'd go to spend my pocket money.
The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.
In our own days we have seen no princes accomplish great results save those who have been accounted miserly.
The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.
Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.
Princes have but their titles for their glories,
An outward honor for an inward toil;
And, for unfelt imaginations,
They often feel a world of restless cares.
I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles
They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.
Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own.
For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them.
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.
There’s no such thing as handsome princes, she told herself. There’s no such thing as happily ever after.
I like the idea of an enlightened principality. In the early eighteen-hundreds, in Germany, there were princes who built schools, streets, homes. I like that.
That which concerns the mystery of the King's power is not lawful to be disputed; for that is to wade into the weakness of Princes, and to take away the mystical reverence that belongs unto them that sit in the throne of God.
Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.
On both sides the troops were commanded by royal princes and they massacred each other mercilessly.
We know that no trust can be placed on princes and that cursed is the man who placeth his reliance on an arm of flesh.
The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.
The quiet mind is richer than a crown....Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss.
Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.
....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.
Torture and cruelty are the words that come to mind when people think of the Tower. Here it was that the princes were murdered, Guy Fawkes racked and Henry VIII's queens executed.
What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'
It was a dream world, a kind of Alice in Wonderland, with its kings and queens, princes and princesses, and our millions of loyal subjects. But it wasn't real, and it couldn't last.
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
A revelation came to me at 16. All true princes must someday become kings.
Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.
The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.
I have seen with my own eyes how the pope was carried on the shoulders of the princes, with all the pomp, being adored in the streets by the surrounding people.
The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
