Since the greed of the provincials runs riot, a limit must be set upon prices.

A greater empire cannot be entrusted to the care of a single man.

Jupiter best and greatest, preserver of the empire.

If you could see the cabbages I have planted with my own hands at Salona, you would surely never think to request this.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

-- Charlemagne

I will not be led in triumph.

-- Cleopatra

Oh, my country! How I leave my country!

-- William Pitt the Younger

When I, Constantine Augustus, and I, Licinius Augustus, fortunately met at Milan... we resolved to grant both to Christians and to all men the freedom to follow whatever religion each one wished.

-- Constantine the Great

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

-- Charles V

I came, I saw, and God conquered.

-- Charles V