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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Would that the Roman people had but one neck!

Let the die be cast.

The fox changes his skin but not his habits.

When I am dead let the earth be dissolved in fire.

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.

He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble.

A good shepherd shears his flock, not flays them.

Only the paths that lead to nowhere, merely the storms that are violent, purely the dangerous forests make man a real man!

It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

All delays are dangerous in war.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.