Appetite Quote by C. S. Lewis

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

— Charles Dickens

A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.

— Pierre Corneille

“We must only demand that which each individual can give,” said the king. “The authority rests first on reason.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“...For that matter, men are perhaps indifferent to power.... What fascinates them in this idea, you see, is not real power, it's the illusion…

— André Malraux

There, right in the midst of our lives, is that which satisfies the craving for inequality, and acts as a permanent reminder that medicine…

— CS Lewis

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed…

— John Selden

A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor…

— Seneca the Younger

“I once saw a spindly man carrying a stone larger than his head upon his back, the passage went. He stumbled beneath the weight,…

— Brandon Sanderson

Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life.…

— King Felipe VI

You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons... full of desire. They demand of you the benefits of desire...…

— Blaise Pascal

As king, your desires must be stronger than any other. You must be more magnificent, more easily angered than everyone else! He should be…

— Anonymous