Sentence examples for virtuous ruler from inspiring English sources

A virtuous ruler, he said, is like the wind: "The moral character of those beneath him is the grass.

In portraying Nero's transition from virtuous ruler to embryonic tyrant and foreshadowing the rise of the law-busting overlord, Racine also astutely holds the mirror up to Nietzsche.

In the Analects, this view is associated especially with the influence a virtuous ruler has over his subjects' characters; in the Mencius, it most likely also reflects that text's optimism about human nature.

After all, both the Analects and the Mencius argue that a virtuous ruler has no need for punishment or other forms of coercion, and that recourse to punishment is a sign of misrule.

But this is not because heaven sends floods to punish bad rulers, but because a virtuous ruler would have ensured that floods would not lead to calamity, by maintaining the dikes so that rivers will not overflow, for example, and by setting aside sufficient food stores to make up for any lost harvest.

Accept that so long as a ruler is competent and virtuous he has a mandate from heaven to rule and therefore it goes against the highest order to overthrow a virtuous ruler.

Virtuous rulers – generous, compassionate, merciful rulers – won.

Legalists were most concerned with developing institutions and policies that would be effective even in the absence of virtuous rulers.

The Cyropaedia of Xenophon was particularly influential during the Renaissance when Cyrus was romanticised as an exemplary model of a virtuous and successful ruler.

She returned the child to the king, naming him Suvrata and declaring that he should become famous as a great, virtuous, and learned ruler.

Among the most celebrated examples of Han lacquer painting is a basket found at Lelang (National Museum, Seoul), decorated with 94 small figures of paragons of filial piety, virtuous and wicked rulers, and ancient worthies.