ruler

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1. ruler - Noun

2. ruler - Verb

Meaning

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).

Source: Webster's dictionary

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

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

A ruler without a nation is like a flower without the sun. Russian Proverb

No man can be a good ruler unless he has first been ruled. Russian Proverb

A traveller is poor, even though he being a ruler. Swahili Proverb

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