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

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

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

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

Hail, Caesar, those who are about to die salute thee. -

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.

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

He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]

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

The fox changes his skin but not his habits.

Would that the Roman people had but one neck! [Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!]

I found Rome built of bricks I leave her clothed in marble.