Power & Leadership Sayings
24 sayings found from the Medieval era from 9 authors
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The rule for solving equations is to balance them.
Let us educate our children to be wise and strong, for in them lies the future of our empire.
The greatest joy of a king is to see his people prosper.
The greatest glory of a king is to be a father to his people.
A good ruler seeks the counsel of the wise.
The greatest empire is built on the foundation of faith.
The strong must protect the weak, and the wise must guide the foolish.
My greatest desire is to restore the Roman Empire.
The greatest leader is not one who is loved, but one who is feared.
He who is not strong enough to protect his family and his tribe, is not worthy of life.
The bow is useless without the arrow, and the arrow is useless without the bow. So too are a leader and his people.
A leader can never be happy until his people are happy.
Do not scorn a weak cub; he may become a brutal tiger.
The wise man is a child, and the child is a wise man. The fool is a king, and the king is a fool.
The elephant walks, but the ant carries the burden. The powerful are weak, and the weak are powerful.
I went looking for the worst man, but I found none; then I looked in my own heart, and there he was.
And you must know that in this kingdom of Bengal, there are many eunuchs. For the king is a great connoisseur of these, and has them in great numbers.
And in this country, they have a custom that when a man has a dispute with another man, they go before the king, and the king decides who is in the right.
For if He, shall find worms, that is, sins, In them, because you have been negligent in your duty, He will command them as worthless to be thrown into the abyss of unclean things.
I would rather be a heathen king than a Christian beggar.