Caligula Quote by Suetonius Download Open image ““So much for the Emperor; the rest of this history must deal with the Monster. —IV:22”” — Suetonius ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Caligula History Roman empire
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“Splendid,” said the Emperor, without a hint of sarcasm. “I believe we’ve achieved a new level of doomed.” Y” — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster.” — Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“He who fights monster should beware, lest he become a monster himself” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“...that this monster, who is only one in form, has a heart so humane that he should not be persecuted for a deformity which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.” — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Not sneering Emperors with world-conquering designs. Not cackling demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition. — Suetonius Copy Share Image
He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.] — Suetonius Copy Share Image
If you did not know at age five that the gods are made up beings and the myths made up stories, you are a… — Suetonius Copy Share Image
General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives. — Suetonius Copy Share Image
Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task… — Suetonius Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.” — Suetonius Copy Share Image
“The titles of his books are recorded as follows: The Twelve Caesars; Royal Biographies; Lives of Famous Whores; Roman Manners and Customs; The Roman… — Suetonius Copy Share Image
“On reflecting at dinner that he had done nothing to help anybody all day, he uttered these memorable and praiseworthy words: "Friends, I have… — Suetonius Copy Share Image
At a banquet Caligula was suddenly seized with a fit of helpless laughter. The consuls reclining next to him asked if they might share… — Suetonius Copy Share Image
These things by reason of our friendship I have not hesitated glo to communicate. — Suetonius Copy Share Image
“-We live in Rome, he says, turning his face to the room again, -Caligula's Rome, with a new circus of vulgar bestialized suffering in… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
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Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
“Caligula wished that the Roman people had but one neck that he might cut it off, and as I read this letter I am… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
“Caligula was a pervert and a tyrant. If the Roman emperor had any redeeming qualities, they weren’t immediately obvious. Unencumbered by things like morality… — Natalie Kyriacou Copy Share Image
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