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La ponctuality is the politeness of kings.

Louis XVIII

Praemonitus, praemunitus.

Popular culture

The State is me.

Louis XIV

All the kings of the earth will bow down before him, and all nations will serve him.

Solomon

Prophet of doom.

Pope John XXIII

He who sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind.

Popular culture

Government of the people, by the people, for the people.

Abraham Lincoln

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Fortune favors the brave.

Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) / Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder)

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.

Robert Herrick