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The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him.

— Thiruvalluvar

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

— Sallust

Why is it that the king can do no wrong? This shows they do not regard the king as being a human. But the king can do wrong.

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

— Pierre Corneille

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.

— Abraham Maslow

I am not afraid if the criticism concerns what I do wrong, because then I know. Because if you say the King cannot be criticized, it means that the King is not human.

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

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

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

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

— Sun Tzu

✗Opposing Perspectives

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

— Edmund Burke

It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give.

— Jack Cade