Princes Quotes

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The quiet mind is richer than a crown....Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss. — Robert Greene
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas,… — Noam Chomsky
Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings. — Edmond de Goncourt
The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there will next come… — Tycho Brahe
Remember the Three Princes of Serendip who went out looking for treasure? They didn't find what they were looking for, but they kept finding things… — George W. Bush
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes… — John Berger
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People… — Joseph de Maistre
Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it is all I… — Michel de Montaigne
I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what… — Mary Wortley Montagu
O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of… — William Shakespeare
I love playing all kinds of roles. I hope it doesnâ€™t sound too pretentious, but I always feel human nature is like a piano, and… — Tom Hiddleston
The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives… — Jay Inslee
And it will always happen that he who is not your friend will request your neutrality and he who is your friend will ask you… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them then let our… — Samuel Rutherford
I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If… — William Blake
Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet… — Plato
On both sides the troops were commanded by royal princes and they massacred each other mercilessly. — Matthew of Edessa
There are two kinds of women: those who marry princes and those who marry frogs. The frogs never become princes, but it is an acknowledged… — Stephen Mitchell
Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places… — Stephen Mitchell
The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always… — Winston Churchill

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