Leaving Quote by George Herbert

It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to…

— Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

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

— Francis Bacon

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 enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.

— Edmond de Goncourt

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

Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends…

— Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

There are so many girls, and so few princes.

— Arthur Linda

“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

“Without doubt, princes become great when they overcome difficulties and hurdles put in their path. When fortune wants to advance a new prince... She…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“But so long as power remains by itself on one side, and enlightenment and wisdom isolated on the other, wise men will rarely think…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

“But the princes, putting the words of their wise men to naught, thought each to himself: If I but strike quickly enough, and in…

— Walter M. Miller Jr

“Princes should devolve on others those matters that entail responsibility, and reserve to themselves those that relate to grace and favour.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli