Affection Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The clemency of princes is very often only a state-trick,to gain upon the affections of their subjects.

— François La Rochefoucauld Duc De

Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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

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

While princes do rule the empire, they have to work within certain boundaries, and they're also always in a contest with each other to…

— Garth Nix

“A Prince, therefore, should have no care or thought but for war, and for the regulations and training it requires, and should apply himself…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

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

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

— Woodrow Wilson

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

— Anonymous

“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 rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The more princes abstain from touching the wealth of their people, the greater will be their resources in the wants of the state.

— Pulcheria