Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be shown to have no clothes.
I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.