Ruler/philosophy

Famous quotes containing the words ruler and/or philosophy:

“Who made you a ruler and judge over us?”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 2:14.

Hebrews to Moses.

“The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind—he had been so for such a long time—but I swear that I do not know how to be deaf: I cannot get used to it, and I am as humiliated and distressed by it today as I was during the first week. No philosophy in the world can palliate deafness.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)