“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.

In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.

The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

One thing I gained in my life is just the need for more Jesus in my life. You never come to a place in your walk with Jesus where you feel like you’ve had enough. That’s a dangerous feeling to have.

Delay always breeds danger.

Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

Science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet normally radiates back out of the atmosphere, we are in danger of creating a permanent ‘carbon summer’.