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The die is cast.
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General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives.

The fox changes his skin but not his habits.

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

Some people are slow to do what they promise; you are slow to promise what you have already done.

As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he [ Claudius ] expelled them [the Jews] from Rome

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.

As for Gaius, he has no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse dry-shod across the Gulf of Baiae.

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

Let the die be cast.
[Lat., Jacta alea esto; or, jacta esa alea.)

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

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

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

Hail, Caesar, those who are about to die salute thee.
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These things by reason of our friendship I have not hesitated glo to communicate.

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

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

So much for the Emperor; the rest of this history must deal with the Monster.
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