Tiberius quotes

Tiberius quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.”
-- Tiberius

Source : "The Twelve Caesars" by Suetonius, (Ch. 28), 121 AD.

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“Caesar is not above the grammarians.”
-- Tiberius

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“I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.”
-- Tiberius

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“To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.”
-- Tiberius

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“Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct.”
-- Tiberius

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“Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, Hatch out.”
-- Tiberius

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“It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.”
-- Tiberius

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“To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it!”
-- Tiberius

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“America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.”
“I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.”
“Mr President, I have decided not to speak the entire speech which I have.”
“I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months.”
“Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.”

Source : Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “The Bow of Orange Ribbon: A Romance of New York”, p.68, Library of Alexandria
“Death should take more care with his paperwork.”
“The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.”
“Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.”
“One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.”

Source : "Motivation and Personality". Book by Abraham Maslow, p. 255, 1954.
“He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.”

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