Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old emperor quotes, emperor sayings, and emperor proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
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
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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.Friedrich Schiller
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How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.Walid Jumblatt
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.Tacitus
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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
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I am Emperor, my descendants will be numerous. From the second generation to the ten thousandth, my line will not end.Qin Shihuangdi
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Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.Alfred De Musset
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An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a glittering crown.Oliver Goldsmith
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The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.Julius Evola
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.Jean de la Fontaine
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If the emperor and the palace officials cannot get along well, the country will surely come to extinction.Su Shi
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At all times an empire is more important than emperor and empress, prince and princess.Amit Kalantri
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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.Wallace Stevens
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It becomes an emperor to die standing.Vespasian
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Praise the Emperor whose sacrifice is life as ours is death.Credo Astronomicon
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You don't need to work hard to earn an empire; there is an army of slaves to do it for you.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.Zhuangzi
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Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother.Billy Sunday
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould.Michel de Montaigne
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The emperor indeed is within the Church, not about the Church.St. Ambrose
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Traitors who prevail are patriots usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.Gore Vidal
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An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries.Napoleon Bonaparte
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The emperor is just a man, after all. Ken Liu
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Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.Henry David Thoreau