No one is able to rule unless he is also able to be ruled.
nemo autem regere potest nisi qui et regi.
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De Ira (On Anger): Book 2, cap. 15, line 4 | From The Imitation of Christ, Liber I, cap. 20 (Of the Love of Solitude and Silence), line 2 : by Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471).