Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
[Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.]
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Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions.
AUGUSTUS CAESAR I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUS CAESAR Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
AUGUSTUS CAESAR Hasten slowly
AUGUSTUS CAESAR I found Rome brick, I left it marble.
AUGUSTUS CAESAR I found Rome brick, I left it marble.
CAESAR AUGUSTUS Hasten slowly.
CAESAR AUGUSTUS You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
AUGUSTUS CAESAR Hasten deliberately.
[Lat., Festina lente.]
AUGUSTUS CAESAR Make haste slowly.
AUGUSTUS CAESAR I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
CAESAR AUGUSTUS Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
CAESAR AUGUSTUS I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUS Hasten slowly.
AUGUSTUS If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but ...
AUGUSTUS I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.
AUGUSTUS Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
AUGUSTUS At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of whi...
AUGUSTUS Have I have played my part well in the comedy of life? If so, clap your hands and dismiss me from th...
AUGUSTUS Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wo...
JULIUS CAESAR To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever nee...
TIBERIUS CAESAR In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.
SID CAESAR Men freely believe that which they desire.
JULIUS CAESAR Men willingly believe what they wish.
JULIUS CAESAR Which death is preferably to every other? The unexpected.
JULIUS CAESAR In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
JULIUS CAESAR I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
JULIUS CAESAR It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
TIBERIUS CAESAR As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
JULIUS CAESAR I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
JULIUS CAESAR It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
JULIUS CAESAR In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
--JULIUS CAESAR It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pa...
JULIUS CAESAR Power has no limits.
TIBERIUS CAESAR As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
JULIUS CAESAR Picture you upon my knee,
Just tea two and two for tea.
IRVING CAESAR Experience is the teacher of all things.
JULIUS CAESAR Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
JULIUS CAESAR I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.
JULIUS CAESAR If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
JULIUS CAESAR It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pai...
JULIUS CAESAR I came, I saw, I conquered.
JULIUS CAESAR I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.
JULIUS CAESAR I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.
JULIUS CAESAR Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about gre...
JULIUS CAESAR Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.
JULIUS CAESAR Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
JULIUS CAESAR It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose cr...
JULIUS CAESAR Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
JULIUS CAESAR What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
JULIUS CAESAR Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
JULIUS CAESAR No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.
JULIUS CAESAR The die is cast.
JULIUS CAESAR I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
JULIUS CAESAR As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
JULIUS CAESAR I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
JULIUS CAESAR Veni, vidi, vici.
[I came, I saw, I conquered]
JULIUS CAESAR Et tu, Brute.
[You also, Brutus.]
JULIUS CAESAR It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
JULIUS CAESAR I love treason but hate a traitor.
JULIUS CAESAR Et tu, Brute? Then fall Caeser.
JULIUS CAESAR The evil men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones,
JULIUS CAESAR All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures
JULIUS CAESAR Which death is preferably to every other? ''The unexpected''.
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JULIUS CAESAR The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, HE was a ge...
SID CAESAR They have such a complex capital structure, and the subordination of some of the issues is unclear. ...
CAESAR SILVESTRO to show your versatility.
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SID CAESAR I didn't allow cue cards because, to my mind, when you're acting with someone you listen when they s...
SID CAESAR The remote control changed our lives, ... The remote control took over the timing of the world. That...
SID CAESAR Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
SID CAESAR It's only hubris if I fail,
JULIUS CAESAR When the swords flash let no idea of love, piety, or even the face of your fathers move you
JULIUS CAESAR I don't think acquiring fuel for its plants should be a problem.
CAESAR SILVESTRO Caesar's wife must be above suspicion
JULIUS CAESAR The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.
SID CAESAR I would rather be first in a small village in Gaul than second in command in Rome
JULIUS CAESAR In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes
JULIUS CAESAR Now one was either Tory or Whig; it was either dependence or independence.
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CAESAR SILVESTRO The Sid Caesar Collection.
SID CAESAR The whole of Gaul is divided into three parts.
JULIUS CAESAR If tears were painful, no one would cry.
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BEN CAESAR I think a year like last year was a dream season for the kids,
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BEN CAESAR Arms and laws do not flourish together.
JULIUS CAESAR (CAIUS JULIUS CAESAR) You also, O son Brutus.
[Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.]
JULIUS CAESAR (CAIUS JULIUS CAESAR) In extreme danger fear feels no pity.
[Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]
JULIUS CAESAR (CAIUS JULIUS CAESAR) You carry Caesar and Caesar's fortune.
[Lat., Caesarem vehis, Caesarisque fortunam.]
- Juliu...
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AUGUSTUS HARE Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The diff...
AUGUSTUS HARE Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
AUGUSTUS HARE Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
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AUGUSTUS HARE Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.
AUGUSTUS HARE Practice, the master of all things.
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AUGUSTUS HARE Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so ...
AUGUSTUS HARE As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
AUGUSTUS HARE The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
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AUGUSTUS HARE It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say an...
AUGUSTUS HARE It was her smile. It was the teacher she was, but also the person she was.
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SEIMONE AUGUSTUS It just came down to the fact that it was my home-town school. I grew up around here, it was the opp...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS If someone has to take them — especially at crunch time — then I'd rather take the shot. I'm not...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS It felt good. I was happy just to be out there after my long journey. It was a new experience for me...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS Yesterday's practice felt like I've been here for two years. The team chemistry is great. ... I'm a ...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS I think they're trying to keep up with us.
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS It's just a great opportunity in front of us.
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS We just were standing around and it was easy to guard us.
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS You could see the difference when we actually set screens, made the right cuts, doing the things we ...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS You want to go out on a high note. It's a great opportunity to play the best ever.
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS I feel good about it. I think I've worked hard enough to be deserving of this. It's just a joy being...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS I think a lot of times we got caught standing in the paint, so there wasn't a lot of opportunity for...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS She came in and talked to us like young women. I think we can take to the talking more than the yell...
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SEIMONE AUGUSTUS It was just time to pick it up.
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SEIMONE AUGUSTUS I want to be able to kiss that crystal ball. Hold it and hug it.
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SEIMONE AUGUSTUS Our offense was not as effective. I would not say our energy level was low. But, it was not tip top....
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS I didn't want to take a chance at drawing a foul, losing the ball, whatever the case may have been, ...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS Hopefully, we win six games, and we never have that feeling of disappointment.
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS They did a good job on the defensive end, but most of it dealt with our offense. We just stood aroun...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS The play was running perfectly. I had a good screen, but it was a bad shot, I should have had my fee...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS They were up nine. We cut into the lead, but they came back with two 3-pointers back-to-back. You ca...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS I'm just glad to be part of the history here. I'm more happy to get a win than the 2,000 points.
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS Regardless, we knew she'd want us to come back to Europe and go for the gold. While it was shocking ...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS It's great to be the first team to win here. I think it was kind of an emotional thing for everybody...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS It wasn't what you'd expect. There wasn't a lot of yelling and stuff like that. It was mainly a lot ...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS No pressure at all because I know I have a great supporting cast, I have a lot of great players here...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS This would be the ultimate thing, to bring a national championship back to my hometown, back to the ...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS My eye's on the prize. We want to win. But if we don't, I'm not going to jump off a bridge.
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SEIMONE AUGUSTUS I really don't understand how a men's and women's program wouldn't get along. It's like brotherhood ...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS When you see her come and do a reverse dunk from one side to the other and actually like hang off th...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS I was trying to prove myself tonight.
EMANUEL AUGUSTUS They're always stealing fights from me. It's embarrassing to lose to this type of fighters. They're ...
EMANUEL AUGUSTUS No way that guy beat me. It always happens to me.
EMANUEL AUGUSTUS What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character,...
AUGUSTUS HARE Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain ...
AUGUSTUS HARE It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things go...
AUGUSTUS HARE Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
AUGUSTUS HARE Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the ...
AUGUSTUS HARE Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the s...
AUGUSTUS HARE To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
AUGUSTUS HARE The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
AUGUSTUS HARE A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
AUGUSTUS HARE Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
AUGUSTUS HARE Though I cannot entirely agree with you in supposing that extreme study has been the cause of my lat...
AUGUSTUS TOPLADY Would that the Roman people had a single neck [to cut off their head].
CALIGULA (GAIUS CAESAR) Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)
GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.
GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish
GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.
GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR Experience is the teacher of all things.
GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can
GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in gra...
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the
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CYRUS AUGUSTUS BARTOL Song of the brave, how thrills thy tone
As when the Organ's music rolls;
No gold rewards, but ...
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AUGUSTUS Y. NAPIER It is easier to square the circle than to get round a
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AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN I was x years old in the year x^2.
AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, an...
AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and ...
AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN There's no sort o' mistake in little Bullet. He can pick up miles on his feet, and fling ...
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET Oh, dainty and delicious!
Food for the gods! Ambrosia for Apicius!
Worthy to thrill the soul ...
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AUGUSTUS Y. NAPIER Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, bee...
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