Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have, is to so live, and so improve himself in heart and brain, as to be worthy of the love of some splendid woman; and the grandest...

At all times an empire is more important than emperor and empress, prince and princess.

You do realize that you are addressing the emperor of the Crescent Empire.””And you are addressing a free woman of the desert. You are not my emperor. Therefore, I am your equal.

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

Emperor? You old fake! / You’re no Emperor. You’re just an onion. / Now then, little Peer, I’m going to peel you.

Some say,” Scytale said, “that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For a lonely people, the Emperor is a definite place. They can turn toward...

The emperor is naked!”The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted:”No, he isn’t. The emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!

If I were in his(Prophet Muhammad) presence, I would wash his feet.

I don’t wear armor. I don’t carry weapons. An emperor needs only his imagination.

Napoleon, the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminals, and therefore, not geniuses. One can understand him by thinking of the tremendous intensity with which he tried...