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Tacitus
Flavius Josephus
Suetonius

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.

Pliny the Elder
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Once a woman declared that she was desperately in love with him, and he took her to bed with him. "How shall I enter that item in your expense ledger?" asked his accountant later, on learning that she had got 4,000 gold pieces out of him; and Vespasian replied, "Just put it down to 'passion for Vespasian'".

Suetonius
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Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.

Flavius Josephus
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Each year new consuls and proconsuls are made; but not every year is a king or a poet born.

Florus

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