Nero

“Hidden talent counts for nothing”. –Nero

Marco Polo

“If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings; the whole of the Christians — and throw in the Saracens to boot — they would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world”. –Marco Polo

Marcus Aurelius

“Do every act in life as if it was your last”. –Marcus Aurelius

Emperor Hirohito

“I was told that the iron from bomb fragments dropped by the enemy was being used to make shovels. This confirmed my opinion that we were no longer in a position to continue the war”. –Emperor Hirohito

Napoleon Bonaparte

“The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, punish more severely”. –Napoleon Bonaparte