Quotes by Emperors

Men take only their needs into consideration never their abilities.
Napoléon Bonaparte
If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures but in the use made of them.
Napoléon Bonaparte
If they want peace nations should avoid the pinpricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoléon Bonaparte
For the maintenance of peace nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon-shots.
Napoleon
Time is a sort of river of passing events and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius
The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.
Marcus Aurelius
The sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.
Marcus Aurelius
It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden too can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.
Marcus Aurelius
Everyman's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with and the future is uncertain.
Marcus Aurelius
The heart of a statesman should be in his head.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it if you have to with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius
Public instruction should be the first object of government.
Napoleon
A man's palate can in time become accustomed to anything.
Napoleon
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon
It is cowardice to commit suicide.
Napoleon
If you start to take Vienna take Vienna.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoléon Bonaparte
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks but only at what he does himself to make it just and holy.
Marcus Aurelius
Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Look well into thyself there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there.
Marcus Aurelius
Man must be arched and buttressed from within else the temple wavers to dust.
Marcus Aurelius
What pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies ... the real man.
Marcus Aurelius
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
Napoléon Bonaparte
To do all that one is able to do is to be a man to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.
Napoléon Bonaparte
My downfall raises me to infinite heights.
Napoléon Bonaparte
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Napoléon Bonaparte
This is the chief thing: be not perturbed for all things are according to the nature of the universal.
Marcus Aurelius
Let them know a real man who lives as he was meant to live.
Marcus Aurelius
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.
Marcus Aurelius
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Napoléon Bonaparte
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts ... take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius
A man's life is what his thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon
If they want peace nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.
Napoleon
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Marcus Aurelius
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Marcus Aurelius
Hasten slowly.
Augustus Caesar
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at and who steals what is most precious to men.
Napoléon Bonaparte
To live each day as though one's last never flustered never apathetic never attitudinizing-here is perfection of character.
Marcus Aurelius
You may ask me for anything you like except time.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Give me a man with a good allowance of nose ... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.
Napoleon
This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten and goes on fighting.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Make haste slowly.
Augustus
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon
This is the chief thing: be not perturbed for all things are according to the nature of the universal.
Marcus Aurelius
Let them know a real man who lives as he was meant to live.
Marcus Aurelius
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon
To do all that one is able to do is to be a man to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.
Marcus Aurelius
Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.
Napoléon Bonaparte
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Napoléon Bonaparte
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts ... take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius
A man's life is what his thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon
If they want peace nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.
Napoleon
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Marcus Aurelius
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Marcus Aurelius