Companion Quote by Nicolas Caussin
“The famous Apollonius being very early at Vespasian's gate, and finding him stirring, from thence conjectured that he was worthy to govern an empire, and said to his companion, This man surely will be emperor; he is so early.”
![“Letter from Philippus of Athens to Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Yet the Empire of Rome that [Octavius] created has endured the harshness of a Tiberius, the monstrous cruelty of a Caligula, and the ineptness of a Claudius. And now our new Emperor is one whom you tutored as a boy, and to whom you remain…” quote by John Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aa7/john-williams-3311_quote_letter-from-philippus-of-athens-to-luciu_2503465.jpg)
![“[The] emperor of the West, the feeble and dissolute Valentinian, [had] reached his thirty-fifth year without attaining the age of reason or courage.” quote by Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/012/edward-gibbon-710_age_the-emperor-of-the-west-the-feeble-and-d_1736985.jpg)
![“[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.” quote by Theophile Gautier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a3d/theophile-gautier-7224_cat_a-cat-will-make-itself-the-companion-of_34315.jpg)
