Life Quote by Robert Burton

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

— Edmond de Goncourt

“Princes know themselves to be princes, and are not snobs; besides, they believe themselves to be so far above everything that is not of…

— Marcel Proust

“For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.…

— John Calvin

“Some men,' they said, `are born princes, and some raise themselves by their talents to be kings among men.”

— Amy Steedman

“That I was not long brought up by the concubine of my father; that I preserved the flower of my youth. That I took…

— Marcus Aurelius

“And a young prince must be prudent like that, giving freely while his father lives so that afterwards, in age when fighting starts steadfast…

— Seamus Heaney

A prince must not have any objective nor any thought, nor take up any art, other than the art of war and its ordering…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“My life as a princes, or a peasant, is not worth living without you in it.”

— Victoria Alexander

“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

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

— Niccolò Machiavelli