Suetonius
The fox changes his skin but not his habits.Collection: Skins
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.Collection: Made Up Stories
At a banquet Caligula was suddenly seized with a fit of helpless laughter. The consuls reclining next to him asked if they might share in the imperial merriment. Caligula, wiping the tears from his eyes, managed to gasp, "You'll never guess! It suddenly occurred to me that I had only to give a single nod, and both your throats would be cut on the spot."Collection: Laughter
Few of Caesar's assassins outlived him by more than three years, or died in their beds.Collection: Years
When I am dead let the earth be dissolved in fire.Collection: Future
As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he [ Claudius ] expelled them [the Jews] from RomeCollection: Rome
Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.Collection: Christian
I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.Collection: Rome
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.Collection: Angel
Again, during a sacrifice, the augur Spurinna warned Caesar that the danger threatening him would not come later than the Ides of March.Collection: Sacrifice
These things by reason of our friendship I have not hesitated glo to communicate.Collection: Reason
General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives.Collection: Night