Top 39 Roman Emperor Quotes
#1. Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (one of the doer-Stoic authors), "fire feeds on obstacles.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#3. The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.
Julius Evola
#4. In theory the Holy Roman Emperor exercised a temporal sway matching the spiritual rule of the Pope over the universal community under God.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#5. The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great
Dan Brown
#6. Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.
Margaret Mead
#7. Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#8. In the second century A.D. the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius may have best defined pantheism when he wrote, Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.
Sharman Apt Russell
#9. In another chapter I have told you how in the year 800 a German chieftain had become a Roman Emperor. Now in the year 1066 the grandson of a Norse pirate was recognised as King of England. Why should we ever read fairy stories, when the truth of history is so much more interesting and entertaining?
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#10. Louis XIV often appeared as a Roman emperor, adorned with other symbols...
The quality, number, value, and length of fabric, plumes, jewelry, and trains were all calibrated to status.
Jennifer Homans
#11. You know that I'm not going to let the Holy Roman Emperor - or anybody else, for that matter - seduce me.
Deborah Harkness
#12. But only two people known by name were also called "Son of God." One was the Roman emperor - starting with Octavian, or Caesar Augustus - and the other was Jesus. This is probably not an accident. When Jesus came on the scene as a divine man, he and the emperor were in competition.
Bart D. Ehrman
#13. Christmas Day 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne "Holy Roman Emperor" in the Basilica of St. Peter. The congregation acclaimed him as "Augustus," and Leo prostrated himself at Charlemagne's feet.
Karen Armstrong
#14. Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, till the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian . And to reject his prophecies, is to reject the Christian religion. For this religion is founded upon his prophecy concerning the Messiah .
Isaac Newton
#15. There is no indication that any church official suggested or supported the emperor's action against gay people. On the contrary, the only persons known by name to have been punished for homosexual acts were prominent bishops.
John Boswell
#17. Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on which to model themselves, and who in consequence without much trouble discover his vices and virtues.
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
#19. Since by the ordination of God I both am called and am Emperor of the Romans, in nothing but name shall I appear to be ruler if the control of the Roman city be wrested from my hands.
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
#22. On Earth, God has placed no more than two powers, and as there is in Heaven but one God, so is there here one Pope and one Emperor. Divine providence has specially appointed the Roman Empire to prevent the continuance of schism in the Church.
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
#24. Servitude of any sort is distasteful to all men, but especially objectionable is subjection to others in the case of those who ought to rule.
Ulrich Von Hutten
#26. Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man, to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and a feeling of affection and freedom and justice. These words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus strike me as pretty good advice, for even the orneriest young scamp.
Walker Percy
#27. The most certain way of ensuring victory is to march briskly and in good order against the enemy, always endeavouring to gain ground.
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
#28. To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse - German.
Emperor Charles V
#29. When [Servius Galba] was a commoner he seemed too big for his station, and had he never been emperor, no one would have doubted his ability to reign.
Tacitus
#30. We still haven't gotten the message; we still don't see that it's bad. And then we copy everything about their [Roman Empire] structure. I mean Paul Bremer was the proconsul of Iraq. We're still using ancient terminology, we still have Senators and we have an Emperor, almost.
Immortal Technique
#32. I was thinking, So, I'm Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.
Robert Graves
#33. How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
#34. The victory of the Church over the power which was embodied in the Roman imperial system was not won by seizing the levers of power: it was won when the victims knelt down in the Colosseum and prayed in the name of Jesus for the Emperor.
Lesslie Newbigin
#37. 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
#39. So much for the Emperor; the rest of this history must deal with the Monster.
- IV:22
Suetonius
