Caring for people is a ruler's first consideration

One must be a lover of men and a lover of his country. For neither horses nor dogs nor men nor any other thing can be properly controlled except by one who takes pleasure in the objects for which it is his duty to care. You must care for the people and make it your first consideration to rule acceptably to them. Isocrates. To Nicocles. Book 2. Section 15.

Venus and Cupid Roman 1st-2nd century CE Marble from the Richelieu Collection
photographed at The Louvre in Paris, France.