Emperors Quotes
36 quotes by 32 authors
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Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
— Guru Nanak
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Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and…
— Horatio Nelson
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The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by…
— Edward Gibbon
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat…
— Blaise Pascal
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.
— Gore Vidal
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I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if…
— C.S. Lewis
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Emperors are vain and useless things.
— Scott Westerfeld
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News flash, lady. There are no queens anymore,†Shane said. He loaded shells in a shotgun and snapped it shut, then searched for a place…
— Rachel Caine
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.. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the…
— Carl Sagan
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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you know your being, there is no question of becoming. All that you could have ever imagined to become you already are. You are…
— Rajneesh
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Theater of Cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the cruelty…
— Antonin Artaud
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Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors…
— Carl Sagan
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