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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
The admission of one man, either hereditarily or for life only, into the place of chief of a country, is an evidence of the infirmity of man. Nature has set up no difference between a king and other men; a king, therefore, is purely the creation of our own hands.
It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.
As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
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.
Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.
I'm a King. Regardless of what I've been through and what I've done, I present myself as a King. And I get that respect from people, from everybody I deal with. I worked my whole life to establish that respect and make sure I get that respect.
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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