Suetonius Quotes

#1. 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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#2. One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop. G. Weilacher

Ian Molyneaux

#3. Change is disturbing when it is done to us, exhilarating when it is done by us.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.

Wallace Stevens

#7. Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong.

Doc Hastings

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

Suetonius

#9. As a little girl, I was athletic: 'Oh, mom, look at me. I can do cartwheels.' I was one of those annoying kids. I craved the spotlight. I had the feeling since I was little that the stage was my home.

Ashley Leggat

#10. Hail, Caesar, those who are about to die salute thee.
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#11. The die is cast.
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#12. When I am dead let the earth be dissolved in fire.

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#13. It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect.

Michael Hirst

#14. 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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#15. A bad decision well implemented is better than a brilliant decision not well implemented.

Peter Schutz

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

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#17. I will permit no man to narrow & degrade my sould by making me hate him.

Booker T. Washington

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

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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. So much for the Emperor; the rest of this history must deal with the Monster.
- IV:22

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#23. These things by reason of our friendship I have not hesitated glo to communicate.

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

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

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#27. Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.

David Sanborn

#28. When sorrows surround you few will comfort you. When happiness arises many will be part of the celebrations
And when Tragedy happens only the Lord is a prayer by calling out his Glorious name

Sonny Cele

#29. Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.

Zooey Deschanel

#30. The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do.

Frances O'Grady

#31. There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the floor, or the one red leaf the snow releases in March

Jane Hirshfield

#32. She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

Voltaire

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

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

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#35. Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

Malcolm X

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

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