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Rules for Monarchs

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Title:     Rules for Monarchs
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [More Titles by Goethe]

IF men are never their thoughts to employ,
Take care to provide them a life full of joy;
But if to some profit and use thou wouldst bend them,
Take care to shear them, and then defend them.


1815.






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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem: Rules for Monarchs

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