Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... ( Suetonius , Twelve Casars : Titus , 8 ) . Cf. " I've lost a day , " the prince who nobly cried Had been an emperor without his crown ; Of Rome ? say , rather , lord of human race : He spoke , as if deputed by mankind.— Young , Night ...
... ( Suetonius , Twelve Casars : Titus , 8 ) . Cf. " I've lost a day , " the prince who nobly cried Had been an emperor without his crown ; Of Rome ? say , rather , lord of human race : He spoke , as if deputed by mankind.— Young , Night ...
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... ( Suetonius , Caesar , 30 ; Plutarch . Lives : Caesar , xlvi ) . Cf. " Vous l'avez voulu , vous l'avez voulu , George Dandin , vous l'avez voulu ' ( You would have it so , you would have it so , George Dandin , you would have it so ) ...
... ( Suetonius , Caesar , 30 ; Plutarch . Lives : Caesar , xlvi ) . Cf. " Vous l'avez voulu , vous l'avez voulu , George Dandin , vous l'avez voulu ' ( You would have it so , you would have it so , George Dandin , you would have it so ) ...
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... ( Suetonius , Twelve Caesars : Vespasianus , 24 ) . Cf. " Un amiral francais doit mourir sur son banc de quart . ( A French admiral should die at his post ) -Dying words of Vice- Admiral Francois Paul de Brueys d'Aigal- liers ( 1753-98 ) ...
... ( Suetonius , Twelve Caesars : Vespasianus , 24 ) . Cf. " Un amiral francais doit mourir sur son banc de quart . ( A French admiral should die at his post ) -Dying words of Vice- Admiral Francois Paul de Brueys d'Aigal- liers ( 1753-98 ) ...
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... ( Suetonius , Twelve Caesars , xxiii ) . There is thus no classical authority for the phrase as commonly quoted " non olet . " Cf .: Lucri bonus est odor ex re Qualibet ( Gain smells sweet , from what soe er it springs ) — JUVENAL ...
... ( Suetonius , Twelve Caesars , xxiii ) . There is thus no classical authority for the phrase as commonly quoted " non olet . " Cf .: Lucri bonus est odor ex re Qualibet ( Gain smells sweet , from what soe er it springs ) — JUVENAL ...
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... ( Suetonius , Twelve Casars : Vitellius , x ) . See Vous avez la plaie & c . O sancta simplicitas ! ( O holy simplicity ! ) JOHN HUSS ( 1373-1415 ) —at the stake , an old woman busying herself in heaping up the wood ( Milman , Latin ...
... ( Suetonius , Twelve Casars : Vitellius , x ) . See Vous avez la plaie & c . O sancta simplicitas ! ( O holy simplicity ! ) JOHN HUSS ( 1373-1415 ) —at the stake , an old woman busying herself in heaping up the wood ( Milman , Latin ...
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ABBÉ alluding asked Attributed battle BENJAMIN DISRAELI Earl bien Biog c'est Cæsar CARDINAL Chamber of Deputies Charles COMTE death Dict Dieu Diogenes Laertius DUKE OF WELLINGTON Dying words Earl of Beaconsfield EDMUND BURKE Emperor enemy Engl England fait faut femme Français France French grand HENRY Hist homme honour House of Commons Hume j'ai jamais JOHN June king Last words Le Moniteur universel letter liberty Lives Lord LOUIS XIV Madam Mémoires MIRABEAU Molière Moniteur mort mourir n'est NAPOLEON nation never Paris Parliament Phocion phrase Plutarch PRESIDENT PRINCE BISMARCK Prussian qu'il qu'on Queen quoted referring Reichstag remark reply rien saying Sire soldiers speech Suetonius thou tion tout Voltaire W. E. GLADSTONE WELLINGTON 1769 WILLIAM γὰρ δὲ καὶ μὲν μὴ οὐ οὐκ τὴν τὸ Τὸν τοὺς