The Republic – Plato

“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”

The Prince and the Pauper

“When I am come to mine own again, I will always honor little children, remembering how that these trusted me and believed me in my time of trouble; whilst they that were older, and thought themselves wiser, mocked at me and held me for a liar.”

The Prince

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