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- Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography… — Mark Twain
- I'm sure that Nero didn't set fire to Rome. It was the Christian-Bolsheviks who did that, just as the Commune set fire… — Adolf Hitler
- They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert. — Victor Borge
- Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's. — William Gurnall
- The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but… — Antoine Rivarol
- The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Men call their sons Paul and their dogs Nero today. — J. Vernon McGee
- Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's... But how does the great apostle spend his time in prison?... We… — William Gurnall
- When Paul was taken in chains from his filthy Roman dungeon and beheaded at the order of the opulent madman Nero, two… — Randy Alcorn
- Following Emporer Nero's command, "Let the Christians be exterminated!:" . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they… — Tacitus
- You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor. — Walter Bagehot
- The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome. — John Foxe