Ruler General

Famous quotes containing the words ruler and/or general:

“Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“The general feeling was, and for a long time remained, that one had several children in order to keep just a few. As late as the seventeenth century . . . people could not allow themselves to become too attached to something that was regarded as a probable loss. This is the reason for certain remarks which shock our present-day sensibility, such as Montaigne’s observation, “I have lost two or three children in their infancy, not without regret, but without great sorrow.””
—Philippe Ariés (20th century)