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Emperors are vain and useless things. -- Scott Westerfeld
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. -- Rudyard Kipling
Emperors are not made from cowards; they are made from those who take great risk where there stands to be even greater gain. -- A.J. Darkholme
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 under age, but when of age, in purple. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity. -- Ernst Toller
Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples. -- Alfred de Musset
How dangerous emperors are when they go mad. -- Walid Jumblatt
Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors. -- Gore Vidal
Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors." -- Gore Vidal
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould -- Michel de Montaigne
I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring. -- Otto von Bismarck
Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors? -- Petrarch
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God. -- Guru Nanak
The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man. -- Friedrich Schiller
Smiting enemies has always been so admired that, unlike medicine or archaeology, it entitled its successful practitioners to become kings, emperors, and presidents ... -- Barbara Holland
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. -- Khalil Gibran
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. -- Khalil Gibran
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves. -- Bertolt Brecht
Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God. -- Guru Nanak
The terror of the Roman arms added weight and dignity to the moderation of the emperors. They preserved the peace by a constant preparation for war. -- Edward Gibbon
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 betwixt princes. -- Michel de Montaigne
The Black Prism' is a story of emperors and prisoners and magic set in a Mediterranean, 1600-esque world. It's a fantasy story; it's fast and fun and inventive. -- Brent Weeks
Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout. -- Thomas Sydenham
Is it not a noble farce, where kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre? -- Michel de Montaigne
Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power. -- Mengistu Haile Mariam
.. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot' -- Carl Sagan
Heaven and earth, all the emperors, kings, and princes of the world, could not raise a fit dwelling-place for God; yet, in a weak human soul, that keeps His Word, He willingly resides. -- Martin Luther
For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of those doing well, the sheer unbearable arrogance of the living and loved. -- Tom Conrad
How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting. -- Leonardo da Vinci

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