#emperor

It becomes an emperor to die standing. ↗

— Titus Flavius Vespasian

#die #emperor #standing

I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#emperor #ethiopia #i #live #lived

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#emperor #heart #power

I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar. ↗

— Emperor Sigismund

#am #emperor #grammar #i #i am

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome. ↗

— John Foxe

#emperor #first #persecution #place #rome

My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country. ↗

— Wolfman Jack

#earn #emperor #enough #fake #japanese

The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West. ↗

— Henri Pirenne

#century #culture #destroyed #emperor #essential

Now it has become clear to me, that it cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another. In our troubled world so full of contradictions, the wise person makes justice his guide and learns from all. Perhaps in this way the door may be opened again whose key has been lost." -- Emperor Akbar ↗

— Emperor Akbar

#faith #fatehpur-sikri #india #religion #universal

An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#artist #emperor #her #his #oppresses

How dangerous emperors are when they go mad. ↗

— Walid Jumblatt

#emperors #go #how #mad