Death Quote by Vespasian

It becomes an emperor to die standing.

— Anonymous

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

— Friedrich Schiller

“For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So, when this mortal shall have put on immortality, then…

— The Church Fathers

“That’s why the Emperor needs an Empire, Kanan. It’s like a space slug, whose only function is to stay alive. It’s got to consume,…

— John Jackson Miller

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way…

— Miguel de Cervantes

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

— Soren Kierkegaard

“The decrees of the emperor end at the village gate.”

— Traditional Vietnamese

He governed as if he felt predestined to never die

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

While the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Coliseum falls, Rome shall fall; when Rome falls, the world shall fall.

— Venerable Bede

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

— Thomas Paine

“The empire cannot become a child again. Nobody can. It cannot simply give away its cannons, machines, and money and once again write poems…

— Hermann Hesse

“An empire cannot be destroyed from without till it is destroyed from within.”

— Pierce Brown