The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.
The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.
Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.
It is much safer to obey than to rule.
Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.
The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.