I inherited my sense of passion and romance from the…

Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three." Plenty of time to enjoy…

— C.P. Cavafy

You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at…

— Epictetus

“As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.”

— David Mitchell

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

— Suetonius

Darkdoom? Darkdoom did this?" Nero was visibly surprised. He placed a hand on his forehead, rubbing his temples. "Oh, why is it always the…

— Mark Walden

I’m not dead yet. It’s all good. (Omari) Good. That whole spontaneous combustion thing can be a real buzzkill. Ruins your clothes, too. (Nero)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her…

— Edward Thomas

By the way, you guys seriously screwed up just now. (Nero) We know. (They said in unison.) Yeah, well, what you don’t know is…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“I would rather see Rome ruled by a man who once had to ask his accountant tricky questions before his steward could pay the…

— Lindsey Davis

I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know. (Nero Wolfe)

— Rex Stout

Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Æropus, a Macedonian king, made lanterns; Harcatius, the king of…

— Jeremy Taylor

“They never let you live it down. One little mistake!"- Nero”

— Robert Lynn Asprin

“I know not how the Christians order their own lives, but I know that where their religion begins, Roman rule ends, Rome itself ends,…

— Henryk Stanczyk

“[Christians] are people such as the world has not seen hitherto, and their teaching is of a kind that the world has not heard…

— Henryk Stanczyk

And you take care, too, Shahara. Remember the lies we tell ourselves to survive seldom bring peace to our souls. (Nero)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon