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  • The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

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  • Aristotle A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Blaise Pascal Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Aleister Crowley Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say ''no.'' I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Aeschylus Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Aristotle He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Plato Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Machiavelli It should be noted that when he seizes a state the new ruler ought to determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He should inflict them once and for all, and not have to renew them every day.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • B. C. Forbes The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Ann Landers We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Denis Waitley You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Elias Canetti The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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