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“Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.”

Said Used Given Subjects Queens Cheer Sovereign Symbolic Good Cheer Panacea

Book:Gargantua and Pantagruel: Easyread Edition

Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel: Easyread Edition

“All Governments rest mainly on public opinion, and to that of his own subjects every wise Sovereign will look. The opinion of his subjects will force a Sovereign to do his duty, and by that opinion will he be exalted or depressed in the politics of the world.”

World Looks Government Force Opinion Wise Subjects Duty Sovereign Public Opinion Monarchy Exalted Very Wise

Author:Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

“Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew from court on the first symptoms of coldness and indifference; required a formal invitation for each visit; and taught his sovereign an important lesson, that he might command the obedience of a subject, but that he must deserve the attachment of a friend.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power" when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title "people," and they refer to one another individually as "citizens" when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as "subjects" when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.”

People Kind States Use Body Law Subjects Citizens Members Authority Active Titles Compare Passive Sovereign Participation Subordination

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.”

Self Love Is Struggle Subjects Objects Victory Gains Slave Defeat Possession Sovereign Duality Reciprocity Contemplative Caress Separateness

Book:The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

“The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.”

Men Mind Kind May Heaven Pleasure Subjects All Things Divinity Good Man Modest Sovereign Reserved

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.”

Long States Able Lasts Power Subjects Protect Understood Obligation Sovereign Leviathan Absolute Monarchy

Book:Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil

Source: Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil