Royal Palaces quotes

Royal Palaces

3 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Haile Selassie
Haile Selassie Emperor

"The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity... he and his people took millions from the state treasurer and left cemeteries full of people who had died of hunger, cemeteries visible from the windows of the royal palace"

Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader

"According to accounts of the Buddha's life, it would seem that he had a very deep relationship with nature. He was not born in the royal palace but in a park, under a sala tree. He attained complete enlightenment under the bodhi tree and left this earth to enter Parinirvana, again, between three sala trees. It would seem that the Buddha was very fond of trees."

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