{"id":91968,"date":"2021-04-26T08:37:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T06:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?page_id=91968"},"modified":"2021-04-26T08:37:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T06:37:10","slug":"quotes-of-nero","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/golden-thoughts-of-romans\/quotes-of-nero\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes of Nero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Nero\" href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/neron\/\">Nero<\/a> (<em>Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus<\/em>) lived in the years 37 &#8211; 68 CE. <span class=\"underlined\">Roman emperor in the years 54 &#8211; 68 CE<\/span>.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"cyt\">\n<li>&#8220;There is no other way of enjoying riches and money than by riotous extravagance, declaring that only stingy and niggardly fellows kept a correct account of what they spent&#8221;\n<ul class=\"cyt2\">\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">latin<\/span>: <em>[Divitiarum et pecuniae fructum non alium putabat quam profusionem, sordidos ac deparcos esse quibus impensarum ratio constaret, praelautos vereque magnificos qui abuterentur ac perderent]<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">source<\/span>: Suetonius, <em>Nero<\/em> 30<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;How I wish I had never learned to write!&#8221;\n<ul class=\"cyt2\">\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">latin<\/span>: <em>[Quam vellem nescire litteras]<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">description<\/span>: by signing a death sentence at the beginning of his reign, previously refusing to do it.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">source<\/span>: Suetonius, <em>Nero<\/em> 10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;However much it may be your advice and your wish that I should return speedily, yet you ought rather to counsel me and to hope that I may return worthy of Nero&#8221;\n<ul class=\"cyt2\">\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">latin<\/span>: <em>[Quamvis nunc tuum consilium sit et votum celeriter reverti me, tamen suadere et optare potius debes, ut Nerone dignus revertar]<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">description<\/span>: Nero&#8217;s response to the pressing pleas of one of his freedmen for Nero to return from Olympia to Rome.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">source<\/span>: Suetonius, <em>Nero<\/em> 23<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;What an artist the world loses in me&#8221;\n<ul class=\"cyt2\">\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">latin<\/span>: <em>[Qualis artifex pereo!]<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">description<\/span>: words attributed to him before he died.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">source<\/span>: Suetonius, <em>Nero<\/em> 49<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I am at last beginning to be housed like a human being&#8221;\n<ul class=\"cyt2\">\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">latin<\/span>: <em>[Hactenus comprobavit, ut se diceret quasi hominem tandem habitare coepisse]<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">description<\/span>: he said once he entered his new palace (<em>Domus Aurea<\/em>).<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">source<\/span>: Suetonius, <em>Nero<\/em> 31<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Wait until I deserve them&#8221;\n<ul class=\"cyt2\">\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">latin<\/span>: <em>[Cum meruero]<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">description<\/span>: his words, when the senate passed a vote of thanks to him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"cyt2\">\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">source<\/span>: Suetonius, <em>Nero<\/em> 10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nero (Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) lived in the years 37 &#8211; 68 CE. 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