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The die is cast.
- — Suetonius
- — Suetonius
The fox changes his skin but not his habits.
— Suetonius
A good shepherd shears his flock, not flays them.
[Lat., Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere.] — Suetonius
[Lat., Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere.] — Suetonius
Some people are slow to do what they promise; you are slow to promise what you have already done.
— Suetonius
As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he [ Claudius ] expelled them [the Jews] from Rome
— Suetonius
Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
— Irwin Winkler
As for Gaius, he has no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse dry-shod across the Gulf of Baiae.
— Suetonius
Ah! thus man spoils Heaven's glorious works with blood!
— Charlotte Turner Smith
Again, during a sacrifice, the augur Spurinna warned Caesar that the danger threatening him would not come later than the Ides of March.
— Suetonius
We're our own worst enemy. You doubt yourself more than anybody else ever will. If you can get past that, you can be successful.
— Michael Strahan
Adversity discourages losers; adversity inspires winners.
— Debasish Mridha
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.
— Suetonius
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
— George Santayana
This day does not belong to one man but to all. Let us together rebuild this world that we may share in the days of peace.
— Aragorn
He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble.
[Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.] — Suetonius
[Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.] — Suetonius
It's not that I'm afraid to die, but I'm terribly, terribly afraid not to live.
— Frances Noyes Hart
Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.
— Suetonius
It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?'
— Mike Farrell