Would that the Roman people had a single neck [to cut off their head].


Caligula (Gaius Caesar)

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Caligula wished that the Roman people had but one neck that he might cut it off, and as I read this ...
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Would that the Roman people had but one neck! [Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!...
CAIUS TRANQUILLUS SUETONIUS
I wish the Roman people had only one neck!
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We knew if we cut the head off it would be tough for them.
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JOSEPH CAMPBELL
They'd have to cut my head off to keep me from going,
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SO YOU ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO REJECT MY DIVINITY! - Caligula, 37 CE.
JOSEPH SHELLIM
I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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People would be a lot better off if they'd enjoy being single.
LEWIS BLACK
Mind so sharp,I fuck around and cut my head off
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Don't try to run your life through a single straw. Someone, some event, will cut it off.
MICHAEL MULLEN
You coward, lay down your arms before your head gets cut off,
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ABDUL RAOULF
Can I cut off your head?"
"Are you asking for my permission?
AMANDA HOCKING
Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.
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You saw me out there today, ... I was like a chicken with my head cut off.
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It hit him in an artery, I guess. It swelled up and cut off the blood flow to his head.
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J.P. DELANEY
Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)
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In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.
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Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish
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The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.
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Experience is the teacher of all things.
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As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can
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They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing kno...
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Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
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These people would give you the shirt off of their backs, that is just the kind of people they are.
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We have sacrificed a great deal for this nation, and now to turn their back on us and cut us off wou...
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Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)
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What power has law where only money rules.
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One good turn deserves another.
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Reason can in general do more than blind force.
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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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But are they heroes or mere dreamers?
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Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
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Hasten slowly
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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.
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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.
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Men freely believe that which they desire.
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Men willingly believe what they wish.
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Which death is preferably to every other? The unexpected.
JULIUS CAESAR
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
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I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
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It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
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As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
JULIUS CAESAR
I found Rome brick, I left it marble.
CAESAR AUGUSTUS
Hasten slowly.
CAESAR AUGUSTUS
I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
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It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
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Power has no limits.
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Nothing common can seem worthy of you. [Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.]
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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.
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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.
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If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
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I came, I saw, I conquered.
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I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.
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I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.
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Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
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Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
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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.
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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
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
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.
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I love treason but hate a traitor.
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Et tu, Brute? Then fall Caeser.
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The evil men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones,
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All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures
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