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The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.

— Michel de Montaigne

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

— Pierre Corneille

The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.

— Woodrow Wilson

Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their…

— Ben Jonson

Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world…

— William Shakespeare

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to…

— Thomas More

To praise princes for virtues they are lacking in is a way of insulting them with impunity

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Princes in this case, Do hate the traitor, though they love the treason.

— Samuel Daniel

“Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind from a vain persuasion, that those who have no dependence, except on their favour, will have…

— Edward Gibbon

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

— Francis Bacon

Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor will have…

— Edward Gibbon