PRINCE

Related Subjects: Kings, Queen

1. Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest.—BACON, Of Empire
   

2. Put not your trust in princes.—Bible, Psalms 146:3
   

3. Prince am I none, yet am I princely born!—THOMAS DEKKER, Shoemakers' Holiday
   

4. The friendship of princes does not go beyond their convenience.—QUEEN ELIZABETH
   

5. The Prince exists for the sake of the State; not the State for the sake of the Prince.—ERASMUS, Adagia
   

6. A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.—BEN JONSON, Explorata
   

7. A prince has to have particular care that, to see and to hear him, he appears all goodness, integrity, humanity and religion, which last he ought to pretend to more than ordinarily. For everybody sees, but few understand; everybody sees how you appear, but few know what in reality you are, and those few dare not oppose the opinion of the multitude, who have the majesty of their prince to defend them.—MACHIAVELLI, The Prince
   

8. If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent
   in all the empire.—MENCIUS
   

9. Princes are lost by security, and preserved by prevention.—SIR WALTER RALEIGH
   

10. Yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII
    

11. The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve
    mankind.—WOODROW WILSON