“Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.”
Gore Vidal book Julian
Source: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 13, Helena
“I am emperor. It is I who know what is best for Rome. Not you traitors.”
Statement as he prepared to flee a camp after angry exchanges and insults with his Praetorian Guard; as quoted in The Gigantic Book of Horse Wisdom (2007) by Thomas Meagher, p. 298
Context: I am emperor. It is I who know what is best for Rome. Not you traitors. Now, let go of my horses!
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“In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there’s the temple of an emperor, where there’s a fisherman’s tomb”
Temporibus enim nostris venit imperator in urbem Romam: ibi est templum imperatoris, ibi est sepulcrum piscatoris. Itaque ille ad deprecandam a Domino salutem imperator pius atque christianus non perrexit ad templum imperatoris superbum, sed ad sepulcrum piscatoris, ubi humilis ipsum piscatorem imitaretur, ut tunc respectus aliquid impetraret a Domino, quod superbiens imperator mereri non posset.
Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher
341:4; English from: Newly Discovered Sermons, 1997, Edmund Hill, tr., John E. Rotelle, ed., New City Press, New York, p. p. 286.
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Context: In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there’s the temple of an emperor, where there’s a fisherman’s tomb. And so that pious and Christian emperor, wishing to beg for health, for salvation from the Lord, did not proceed to the temple of a proud emperor, but to the tomb of a fisherman, where he could imitate that fisherman in humility, so that he, being thus approached, might then obtain something from the Lord, which a haughty emperor would be quite unable to earn.
“You will hardly know who I am or what I mean”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
“If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.”
Peter Sellers (1925–1980) British film actor, comedian and singer
As quoted in Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1988) by Leslie Halliwell, p. 622
“Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.”
Rome n'est plus dans Rome, elle est toute où je suis.
Sertorius, act III, scene i.
Sertorius (1662)
D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter
Source: The Complete Poems
“I am the Emperor, and I want dumplings.”
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (1503–1564) king of Bohemia and Hungary
Ferdinand I of Austria, quoted in The Fall of the House of Habsburg (1963) by Edward Crankshaw
Misattributed
“Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.”
Ram Dass book Be Here Now
Be Here Now (1971)