Quotes from The Twelve Caesars

“Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.”
― Suetonius, quote from The Twelve Caesars

“So much for the Emperor; the rest of this history must deal with the Monster.
—IV:22”
― Suetonius, quote from The Twelve Caesars

“Some people are slow to do what they promise; you are slow to promise what you have already done.”
― Suetonius, quote from The Twelve Caesars

“Upon the whole, he added nothing to his own happiness by all the dangers, the fatigues, and the perpetual anxiety which he had incurred in the pursuit of unlimited power.”
― Suetonius, quote from The Twelve Caesars

“Finding himself now attacked on all hands with naked poniards, he wrapped the toga 96 about his head, and at the same moment drew the skirt round his legs with his left hand, that he might fall more decently with the lower part of his body covered. He was stabbed with three and twenty wounds, uttering a groan only, but no cry, at the first wound; although some authors relate, that when Marcus Brutus fell upon him, he exclaimed, "What! art thou, too, one of them? Thou, my son!" 97 The whole assembly instantly (52) dispersing, he lay for some time after he expired, until three of his slaves laid the body on a litter, and carried it home, with one arm hanging down over the side.”
― Suetonius, quote from The Twelve Caesars

“The titles of his books are recorded as follows: The Twelve Caesars; Royal Biographies; Lives of Famous Whores; Roman Manners and Customs; The Roman Year; Roman Festivals; Roman Dress; Greek Games; Offices of State; Cicero’s Republic; The Physical Defects of Mankind; Methods of Reckoning Time; An Essay on Nature; Greek Objurgations; Grammatical Problems; Critical Signs Used in Books.”
― Suetonius, quote from The Twelve Caesars

“When the governor ordered him to travel around the district courts to administer justice and he arrived at Gades, he noticed the statue of Alexander the Great at the temple of Hercules and groaned as though disgusted with his own idleness—he had done nothing worth remembering at an age when Alexander had already conquered the world. He”
― Suetonius, quote from The Twelve Caesars

“The termination of the civil war between Caesar and Pompey forms a new epoch in the Roman History, at which a Republic, which had subsisted with unrivalled glory during a period of about four hundred and sixty years, relapsed into a state of despotism, whence it never more could emerge. So sudden a transition from prosperity to the ruin of public freedom, without the intervention of any foreign enemy, excites a reasonable conjecture, that the constitution in which it could take place, however vigorous in appearance, must have lost that soundness of political health which had enabled it to endure through so many ages.”
― Suetonius, quote from The Twelve Caesars

“Let us go whither the omens of the Gods and the iniquity of our enemies call us. The die is now cast." XXXIII.”
― Suetonius, quote from The Twelve Caesars

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“Докато си мислех така, появиха се миризмите и зловонията. Всичките. Гонеха се, отстъпваха си място, бягаха и се връщаха: миризмата на тераса с гълъби , и зловонието на белина, което опознах що за зловоние е, след като се ожених. И миризмата на кръв, която беше като предизвестие за миризмата на смъртта. И миризмата на сяра от ракетите и фишеците – тогава на площад „Диамант“, и миризмата на хартия от хартиените цветя, и миризмата на суха зеленина, която се ронеше по земята и образуваше килим от дребни листенца, които бяха зеленината, избягала от клонката. И силната миризма на морето. Погладих очите си с ръка. Питах се защо зловонията се наричат зловония, а миризмите – миризми и защо да не може да се казва зловония на миризмите и миризми на зловонията, и тогава се появи миризмата на Антони, когато беше бъден и после миризмата на Антони, когато спеше. – бях казал на Кимет, че може би дървоядите вместо да работят отвън навътре, работят отвътре навън и през кръглите дупчици си показват главите и се замислят за белите, които вършат. – И миризмата на децата, когато бяха малки – на мляко и на лиги, на прясно мляко и на вкиснато мляко. – Госпожа Енрикета ми беше казала, че имаме няколко живота, преплетени един в друг, но смърт или женитба, понякога, не винаги, ги разделя и истинският живот, освободен от всякакви връзки с онези няколко лоши живота, с които е обвързан, може да живее, както би трябвало да живее винаги, ако онези няколко лоши живота го бяха оставили на мира. Казваше още, че те се карат и ни измъчват, а ние нищо не знаем, как то не знаем нито за работата на сърцето, нито за голямото вълнение на червата… И миризмата на чаршафите, по б рали моето тяло и тялото на Антони, онази миризма на уморен чаршаф, който всмуква миризмата на човека. И миризмата на косите върху възглавницата, и миризмата на всички тези боклучета, които краката оставят в края на леглото, и миризмата на носените дрехи, оставени през нощта на някой стол… И миризмата на зърното, на картофите и на бутилката със сода каустик… Дръжката на ножа беше дървена, закована с три пирончета със сплескани глави, за да не може никога повече да се откачи от острието.”
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Call me whatever you want; it's just a name, after all.”
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“For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.”
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