Suetonius quotes
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“Few of Caesar's assassins outlived him by more than three years, or died in their beds.”
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“These things by reason of our friendship I have not hesitated glo to communicate.”
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“Let the die be cast. [Lat., Jacta alea esto; or, jacta esa alea.)”
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“Would that the Roman people had but one neck! [Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!]”
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“When I am dead let the earth be dissolved in fire.”
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“He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]”
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“A good shepherd shears his flock, not flays them. [Lat., Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere.]”
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“General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives.”
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“Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within - for we are both, and to ignore this duality is to invite disaster.”
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“As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he [ Claudius ] expelled them [the Jews] from Rome”
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“Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.”
-- SuetoniusSource : Suetonius (1997). “Suetonius: Lives of the Caesars, book V-VIII ; Lives of illustrious men”, Loeb Classical Library
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“The fox changes his skin but not his habits.”
-- SuetoniusSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, ("Vespasianus", 16), 1922.
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“Again, during a sacrifice, the augur Spurinna warned Caesar that the danger threatening him would not come later than the Ides of March.”
-- SuetoniusSource : Suetonius (1980). “The twelve Caesars”, Penguin Group USA
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“Hail, Caesar, those who are about to die salute thee. -”
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“I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.”
-- SuetoniusSource : Suetonius (1980). “The twelve Caesars”, Penguin Group USA
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