The ruler
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rulers · gold · golden · the ruler · the rulers of the city · السلطان
spoken of as
2 expressionsRulers“gold class”2 mentions
Republic (Greek)
While all of you in the city are brothers, we will say in our tale, yet God in fashioning those of you who are fitted to hold rule mingled gold in their generation, for which reason they are the most precious—but in the helpers silver, and iron and brass in the farmers and other craftsmen.
in the texts
Republic
The ruling class in the myth of metals, said to have gold mixed into their generation.
While all of you in the city are brothers, we will say in our tale, yet God in fashioning those of you who are fitted to hold rule mingled gold in their generation, for which reason they are the most precious—but in the helpers silver, and iron and brass in the farmers and other craftsmen.
The rulers then of the city may, if anybody, fitly lie on account of enemies or citizens for the benefit of the state;
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
Political authority, named both as a source of danger to the seeker of wisdom and as an unstable external good.
⟩ amid the accidents of this world and its cares, and the sicknesses of the soul and of the body and their conjunction, and the wariness now of the common people and now of the ruler, and the watchfulness of the people of the town;
for the joy that men have is for the most part accidental and from without, and whenever the thing rejoiced in passes away or alters, that becomes gloom and grief — as with one who rejoices in wealth, or in a beloved, or in attaining some delight among the delights of living, or one made glad by a child or by dominion and the like of that.