#emperor

Now it has become clear to me, that it cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another. In our troubled world so full of contradictions, the wise person makes justice his guide and learns from all. Perhaps in this way the door may be opened again whose key has been lost." -- Emperor Akbar ↗

— Emperor Akbar

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#faith #fatehpur-sikri #india #religion #universal

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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#better #buried #emperor #living #than

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity. ↗

— Ernst Toller

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#arousing #boy #chamber #day #dead