Friedrich Schiller
Playwright, Poet
"No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart."
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Emperor
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Dan Brown
Author
"The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great"
Jean de La Fontaine
Poet, Fabulist
"Better a living beggar than a buried emperor."
Bertolt Brecht
Playwright, Poet
"The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries."
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"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor."
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"Comedians are the one who have to tell the emperor he has no clothes on."
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"What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor."
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"The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties."
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