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• In the greatest number of the wise lies the world's salvation, in a sagacious king the stability of a people. (Wisdom of Solomon 6, 24)

• No king has known any other beginning of existence; (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 5)

• 'You have chosen me to be king over your people, to be judge of your sons and daughters. (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 7)

• for you had tested your own as a father admonishes, but the others you had punished as a pitiless king condemns, (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 10)

• No more could any king or despot challenge you over those whom you have punished. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 14)

• Rulers were the ones who ordered that statues should be worshipped: people who could not honour them in person, because they lived too far away, would have a portrait made of their distant countenance, to have an image that they could see of the king whom they honoured; meaning, by such zeal, to flatter the absent as if he were present. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 17)

• One and the same punishment had struck slave and master alike, and now commoner and king had the same sufferings to endure. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 11)

• Do not ask the Lord for the highest place, or the king for a seat of honour. (Ecclesiasticus 7, 4)

• Do not parade your uprightness before the Lord, or your wisdom before the king. (Ecclesiasticus 7, 5)

• An undisciplined king will be the ruin of his people, a city owes its prosperity to the intelligence of its leading men. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 3)

• A long illness makes a fool of the doctor; a king today is a corpse tomorrow. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 10)

• Healing itself comes from the Most High, like a gift received from a king. (Ecclesiasticus 38, 2)