--- title: "2 Cassius Dio Quotes - Famous Politician (Roman history)" description: "Lucius Cassius Dio, also known as Dio Cassius, was a Roman historian and senator of maternal Greek origin. He published 80 volumes of the history of anc..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-cassius-dio-21560.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Cassius Dio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-cassius-dio-21560.jpg) # Cassius Dio (0249) Politician **2** quotes in **35** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Cassius Dio is a politician, best known for *Roman history*. ## Quick Facts About Cassius Dio Born November 30, 0249 Profession Politician Notable works Roman history ## About Cassius Dio Lucius Cassius Dio, also known as Dio Cassius, was a Roman historian and senator of maternal Greek origin. He published 80 volumes of the history of ancient Rome, beginning with the arrival of Aeneas in Italy. The volumes documented the subsequent founding of Rome, the formation of the Republic, and the creation of the Empire up until 229 AD, during the reign of Severus Alexander. Written in Koine Greek over 22 years, Dio's work covers approximately 1,000 years of history. ## Quotes by Cassius Dio > [“Democracy, indeed, has a fair-appearing name and conveys the impression of bringing equal rights to all through equal laws, but its results…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cassius-dio/democracy-indeed-has-a-fair-appearing-name-and-conveys-the-impression/) [Cassius Dio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cassius-dio/) [Anarchy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fe/cassius-dio-93293_anarchy_democracy-indeed-has-a-fair-appearing-na_1282674.jpg) > [The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cassius-dio/the-jews-were-destroying-both-greeks-and-romans-they-ate-the-flesh-of/) [Cassius Dio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cassius-dio/) [Ancient civilizations](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ancient-civilizations/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1c/cassius-dio-93293_ancient-civilization_the-jews-were-destroying-both-greeks-and_2856918.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cassius-dio/#itemlist", "name": "Cassius Dio Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Democracy, indeed, has a fair-appearing name and conveys the impression of bringing equal rights to all through equal laws, but its results are seen not to agree at all with its title. Monarchy, on the contrary, has an unpleasant sound, but is a most practical form of government to live under. For it is easier to find a single excellent man than many of them, section 2and if even this seems to some a difficult feat, it is quite inevitable that the other alternative should be acknowledged to be impossible; for it does not belong to the majority of men to acquire virtue. And again, even though a base man should obtain supreme power, yet he is preferable to the masses of like character, as the history of the Greeks and barbarians and of the Romans themselves proves. section 3For successes have always been greater and more frequent in the case both of cities and of individuals under kings than under popular rule, and disasters do not happen so frequently under monarchies as under mob-rule. 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