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There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. Plato

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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. Khalil Gibran

Inspirational Love Today Truth Obey Beauty Before Yesterday Our Bent Follow Obeyed Kings Only Only Love Kneel Necks

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. Thomas Jefferson

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. Robert Louis Stevenson

Happy World Kings Sure Should Full Things Number

I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness. Kate Forsyth

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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans. Benjamin Disraeli

Day Other Secret Everywhere Ministers Kings Merely Also Deal Governments Upset Which Agents Plans Moment Present Societies Last

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. George Bernard Shaw

Made Born Kings Hallucination Artificial

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed. Bob Dylan

Too Dined Kings Wings Never Been Impressed Offered

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. Horace

Death Kings Impartial Hut Step Towers Knocks Poor Pale

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings. Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Wise Men Earth Kings Wise Men Judges May

I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad. Josephine Baker

Me Walk Coffee Made Presidents Mad Kings More Could Hotel Houses Queens Cup Walked America Get Much Palaces

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings. Moliere

Control Kings Knows How Grammar Which Even

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. Thomas Carlyle

Faith World Kings Only Brute Brute Force Force Persuasion

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come. Mika Waltari

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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. Thomas A. Edison

Friendship World Favor Would Kings Overalls Friends Swap Whose

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate. J. M. Roberts

People Post Enough Able Kings Laws Remained Had Read Been Existed Confidant Middle Middle Ages Romans Literate Places Public Boards Them Far Ages Illiterate Even

The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. James Shirley

Death Fate Made Dust Down State Our Must Crooked Kings Shadows Crown Lays Equal Armour His Hand Blood Substantial Tumble Spade Against Poor Icy Things

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves. Julian Assange

Knowledge Down Bishops Kings Always Upwards Slaves

The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that they will fall. Louis XIV

Will Fall Ambition Danger Sphere Ministers Kings Above Proper Higher Learn Greater Moderate Themselves Should Elevate

Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself. Ann Landers

Class Walk Virtue Everyone Kings Touch Crowds Talk Himself Comfortable Because Person Common Who Keep

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.' Mark Twain

People Presidents Kings Only Editorial Editors Use Right

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