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"And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from caesar augustus, that all the world should be taxed." »(St. Luke 2:1)
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"He was my friend, faithful, and just to meBut Brutus says, he was ambitious,And Brutus is an honorable man.He hath brought many captives home to Rome,Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.Did this in caesar seem ambitiousWhen the poor have cried, caesar hath wept.Ambition should me made of sterner stuff,Yet Brutus says, he was ambitiousAnd Brutus is an honorable man." »William Shakespeare
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"We had parties that nero would have been ashamed to attend" »Ronnie Hawkins
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"The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible nero in the gentlest of human creature that walks." »Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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"The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible nero in the gentlest human creature that walks." »Thomas Bailey
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"caesar's wife must be above suspicion." »Gaius Julius Caesar
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"For ten years caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string." »Spike Milligan, The Goons
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"All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obeyThis Flecknoe found, who like augustus youngWas call'd to empire, and had govern'd longIn prose and verse, was own'd, without disputeThrough all the realms of nonsense, absolute." »John Dryden
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"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones." »William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2
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"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones." »William Shakespeare
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"Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form." »Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
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"It was the boast of augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." »Henry Brougham
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