The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.” — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Knowing you are a boy. missing you like a girl misses her man.. loving you so much more than I could loved… — Roxane Rosal Copy Share Image
You have to be a prince to understand the people, and you have to belong to the people to understand the princes. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
“To gain everything and lose everything in the space of a moment. That is the fate of all princes destined for the… — C.S. Pacat Copy Share Image
“This is how things come to pass in the world,' one of the princes is supposed to have said. 'Blood flows one… — Ismail Kadare Copy Share Image
“Some women have kissed—and some are kissing—a lot of frogs, even though the very first man that they have each kissed was… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Och, Dani my darling, you're not giving me a single reason to wait for you to grow up. You're giving me a… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“They shall wear elegant and ornamented robes, carry a sharp sword at their girdle, pamper themselves in eating and drinking, and have… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“When they are young, they would be old, and old, young.{244} Princes commend a private life; private men itch after honour: a… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“But the princes, putting the words of their wise men to naught, thought each to himself: If I but strike quickly enough,… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“Damn you, Anaxantis. You and your brother were supposed to sit on your princely asses, organize the occasional banquet, use your high… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
We cannot enter into alliance with neighbouring princes until we are acquainted with their designs. We are not fit to lead an… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind from a vain persuasion, that those who have no dependence, except on their favour,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
“Those who by valorous ways become princes...acquire a principality with difficulty, but they keep it with ease.” — W.K. Marriott Copy Share Image
Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Princes are not supposed to be handsome! They’re sniveling, stupid, repulsive creatures! This one … this … How unfair of him to… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes. — Pindar Copy Share Image
“Princes should devolve on others those matters that entail responsibility, and reserve to themselves those that relate to grace and favour.” — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“And Sophie and Agatha lived happily ever after, for girls don't need princes for love to call... No, they don't need princes… — Soman Chainani Copy Share Image
Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“That’s the thing about broken princes. Not all of them have to die. If their soul is whole, they sometimes survive. Sometimes,… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“They spoke as though these Princes are so remote from life as we know it that the smallest sign of humanity, the… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I feel bad for all the little girls reading fairy tales about princes who come and save them. They should learn that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“But here's the truth: no matter how much you might wish for it, princes don't come around every day, and happy endings… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Street rats could fall in love with princes, with queens and heroes, even in the sectors. But happily-ever-afters were indulgences they could… — Kit Rocha Copy Share Image
Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
To know well the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to know well the nature of princes one… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Few indeed are those who continue to be openhanded after they have acquired the means for it. Such as these are princes… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Beethoven speaking to royalty: "What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are… — Beethoven Copy Share Image
“Arpien cleared his throat, removed his cap, and pressed his palms together in the Fifth Stance of Bereavement for Distant Relatives and… — Sarah E. Morin Copy Share Image
I like the idea of an enlightened principality. In the early eighteen-hundreds, in Germany, there were princes who built schools, streets, homes.… — Brunello Cucinelli Copy Share Image
