“General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives.”
Suetonius“The fox changes his skin but not his habits.”
Suetonius“The die is cast.”
Suetonius“General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives.”
Suetonius“Hail Caesar those who are about to die salute thee.”
Suetonius“If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is essentially the history of manners, turned into a story and a play, as is History itself often enough. And there is no other difference than this: that the one, the Novel, cloaks its manners under the disguise of invented characters, while the other, History, provides names and addresses. Only, the Novel probes much deeper than history. It has an ideal, and History has none; it is limited by reality. The Novel also holds the stage much longer. ("A Woman's Vengeance")”
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques