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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
- The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but… — Antoine Rivarol
- "From the reign of Nero to that of Antoninus Pius," Gibbon says again, "the Jews discovered a fierce impatience of the dominion… — Nesta Helen Webster
- Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and… — Bob Dylan
- Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's. — William Gurnall
- 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