“A king without instruction is like a donkey crowned.”

— Stefano Guazzo

Il Re senza lettere era come un Asino coronato.
Della Prudenza et Dottrina del Re. p. 25.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 320.

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Il Re senza lettere era come un Asino coronato.

Source: Citato in Harbottle, p. 320
Source: Dialoghi Piacevoli, Della Prudenza et Dottrina del Re, p. 25

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Italian writer 1530–1593

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Marianne Moore (1887–1972) American poet and writer

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“When kings the sword of justice first lay down,
They are no kings, though they possess the crown.
Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,
The good of subjects is the end of kings.”

Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) English trader, writer and journalist

Pt. II, l. 313.
The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)

“The kingliest kings are crowned with thorn.”

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The kingliest Kings, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.”

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Written on banners used in the 1928 gubernatorial election; quoted in Hugh Davis Graham, Huey Long (1970), p. 39.

“My Crown is in my heart, not on my head:
Not deck'd with Diamonds, and Indian stones:
Nor to be seen: my Crown is call'd Content,
A Crown it is, that seldom Kings enjoy.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

Variant: My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.
Source: King Henry VI, Part 3

“Discussing coronation ceremonies with Vidal, "I quickly moved on to…the moment when two masons appear and ask the newly crowned king for instructions as to his tomb. 'Masons? Masons! Yes. You one? I'm one. But I've forgotten all the odds and ends. Dull, really."”

Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (1894–1972) king of the United Kingdom and its dominions in 1936

Vidal, Palimpsest, 206

“For neither talent without instruction nor instruction without talent can produce the perfect craftsman.”
Neque enim ingenium sine disciplina aut disciplina sine ingenio perfectum artificem potest efficere.

Vitruvius book De architectura

Neither natural ability without instruction nor instruction without natural ability can make the perfect artist.
Morris Hicky Morgan translation
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter I, Sec. 3; translation by Frank Granger

“India is like a donkey carrying a sack of gold. The donkey does not know what it is carrying but is content to go along with its load on the back.”

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Quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2014). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa., p. 10

“Gentlemen, you have fought like lions and been led by donkeys.”

Erwin Rommel (1891–1944) German field marshal of World War II

Said to captured British officers during the Siege of Tobruk, as quoted in The Guinness History of the British Army (1993) by John Pimlott, p. 138

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