#monarchs

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. ↗

— John Dryden

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. ↗

— Epicurus

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Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. ↗

— Horace Walpole

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Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. ↗

— Elizabeth I

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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

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