Definition of Ruler

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Definition of Ruler
	Ruler One who rules; one who exercises sway or authority; a governor. A straight or curved strip of wood, metal, etc., with a smooth edge, used for guiding a pen or pencil in drawing lines. Cf. Rule, n., 7 (a). Related Definitions: Authority, Curved, Drawing, Edge, For, Governor, Guiding, In, Metal, Of, One, Or, Pen, Pencil, Rule, Smooth, Straight, Strip, Sway, Used, Who, With, Wood

Ruler Quotations

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
Mohandas Gandhi

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Aristotle

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
Sun Tzu

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.
Sun Tzu

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
Walt Whitman

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Niccolo Machiavelli

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise Pascal

Ruler Translations

ruler in Dutch is liniaal
ruler in German is Herrscher, Lineal
ruler in Italian is regolo, regolatore, sovrano
ruler in Latin is rector
ruler in Spanish is gobernante

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