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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

The fox changes his skin but not his habits.

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

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