Credit Quote by Michel de Montaigne

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

“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

O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect…

— William Shakespeare

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

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

— François De La Rochefoucauld

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Francis Bacon

“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

We know that no trust can be placed on princes and that cursed is the man who placeth his reliance on an arm of…

— Thomas Becket

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

— Anonymous