Quotes by Emperors - Page 2

Hasten slowly.
Augustus Caesar
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Napoléon Bonaparte
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
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
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon
There are only two forces that unite men-fear and interest.
Napoléon Bonaparte
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Snow endures but for a season and joy comes with the morning.
Marcus Aurelius
Soldiers forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.
Napoleon
10 persons who speak make more noise than 10 000 who are silent.
Napoléon Bonaparte
How many really capable men are children more than once during the day?
Napoléon Bonaparte
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon
Men in general are but great great children.
Napoleon
The only victory over love is flight.
Napoleon
Life is a stranger's sojourn a night at an inn.
Marcus Aurelius
The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unforeseen attack.
Marcus Aurelius
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Nothing is more difficult and therefore more precious than to be able to decide.
Napoléon Bonaparte
There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.
Napoléon Bonaparte
I am the King of Rome and above grammar.
Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund
I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
Napoleon
Accept the things To which fate binds you and Love the people with whom fate Brings you together But do so with all your heart.
Marcus Aurelius
Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness the hideous ingratitude of man.
Napoleon
Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
Napoleon
The human race is governed by its imagination.
Napoleon
I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others.
Marcus Aurelius
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Napoleon
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
A man's happiness: to do the things proper to man.
Marcus Aurelius
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
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Marcus Aurelius
If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing fearing nothing but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.
Marcus Aurelius
If thou workest at that which is before thee following right reason seriously vigorously calmly without allowing anything else to distract thee but keeping thy divine part pure as if thou shouldst be bound to give it back immediately if thou holdest to this expecting nothing fearing nothing but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.
Marcus Aurelius
The safety of the State is the highest law.
Justinian
The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
Napoléon Bonaparte
To them that ask where have you seen the Gods or how do you know for certain there are Gods that you are so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I ever seen my own soul and yet I respect and honor it.
Marcus Aurelius
The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.
Marcus Aurelius
A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
Marcus Aurelius
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
Marcus Aurelius
Without a purpose nothing should be done.
Marcus Aurelius
France always has plenty men of talent but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.
Napoleon
Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.
Marcus Aurelius
Take full account of the excellencies which you possess and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them if you had them not.
Marcus Aurelius
Forethought we may have undoubtedly but not foresight.
Napoleon
Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.
Napoleon
Fashion condemns us to many follies the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Marcus Aurelius
All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.
Napoléon Bonaparte
All the scholastic scaffolding falls as a ruined edifice before a single word: faith.
Napoléon Bonaparte
The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.
Napoléon Bonaparte
If you are distressed by anything external the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
Marcus Aurelius
Time is like a river of fleeting events and its current is strong as soon as something comes into sight it is swept past us and something else takes its place and that too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius