It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.
Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.
An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly.
I never thought of myself as a king. People really want you to be their deity. They forget the fact that you are a person who has feelings and doubts.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.