Suetonius Quotes

#1. Upon the whole, he added nothing to his own happiness by all the dangers, the fatigues, and the perpetual anxiety which he had incurred in the pursuit of unlimited power.

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#2. So much for the Emperor; the rest of this history must deal with the Monster.
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#3. These things by reason of our friendship I have not hesitated glo to communicate.

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#4. As for Gaius, he has no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse dry-shod across the Gulf of Baiae.

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#5. As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he [ Claudius ] expelled them [the Jews] from Rome

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#6. Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.

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#7. Again, during a sacrifice, the augur Spurinna warned Caesar that the danger threatening him would not come later than the Ides of March.

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#8. Let the die be cast.
[Lat., Jacta alea esto; or, jacta esa alea.)

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#9. Some people are slow to do what they promise; you are slow to promise what you have already done.

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#10. The fox changes his skin but not his habits.

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#11. The die is cast.
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#12. 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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#13. On reflecting at dinner that he had done nothing to help anybody all day, he uttered these memorable and praiseworthy words: Friends, I have lost a day.

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#14. Few of Caesar's assassins outlived him by more than three years, or died in their beds.

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#15. Hail, Caesar, those who are about to die salute thee.
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#16. When I am dead let the earth be dissolved in fire.

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#17. 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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#18. If you did not know at age five that the gods are made up beings and the myths made up stories, you are a fool.

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#19. A good shepherd shears his flock, not flays them.
[Lat., Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere.]

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#20. General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives.

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#21. Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

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