Once you laugh with a person? That person is your friend.

Several of them were discussing this in low tones as they waited for Halt to arrive - until they realized that he was already among them. They weren't used to this. Kings were supposed to sweep into a room majestically - not suddenly appear without anyone seeing their arrival.

Kings are the slaves of history.

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.