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Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

Pierre Corneille
World, Clemency, Monarchs

In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs

Charlie Chaplin
Light, Ego, Monarchs

A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.

Robert A. Heinlein
Necks, Should, Monarchs
"The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" by Robert A. Heinlein, (p. 108), 1985.

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Alcohol, Liquid, Monarchs
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2010). “A Handbook of Gastronomy”, p.120, Lulu.com

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Oscar Wilde
Authority, Monarchs
Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.62, Oscar Wilde

Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]

Horace
People, Royalty, Monarchs

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Charlie Chaplin
Successful, Crooks, Monarchs

To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.

Thomas Hobbes
Political, Orators, Monarchs
Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.179

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