Cemetery Quote by Haile Selassie

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

— Jean de La Fontaine

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions…

— Leonardo da Vinci

An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase the favour…

— Edward Gibbon

“A beggar came to an emperor’s palace. The emperor was just in the garden so he heard the beggar. The man on the gate…

— Osho

“We view the world very much as peasants in the countryside have for millennia. they've alsways said that the mountains are high and the…

— Lisa See

He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with…

— Gaston Leroux

“the inhumation of surplus monarchs was a regular source of work for the Assassins’ Guild. There was always someone back home who wanted to…

— Terry Pratchett

The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.

— Ronald Syme

For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Wealthy people build palaces with nine floors. At the time of their departure (dying), the palace jests with them, ‘You are going and here…

— Dada Bhagwan

“The nobility of the kingdom grieved at being reduced to such ruin by the supine simplicity of one man,”

— Dan Jones

Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position in proportion…

— Tacitus