CLAUDIUS

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

Therefore it is right that also the Jews, who are in all the world under us, shall maintain their ancestral customs without hindrance and to them I now also command to use this my kindness rather reasonably and not to despise the religious rites of the other nations, but to observe their own laws

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

[Jews were] fomenting a general plague on the whole world.

O my offense is rank, it smells to heaven.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Evidently, quality of wits is more important than quantity.

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.

Therefore it is right that also the Jews, who are in all the world under us, shall maintain their ancestral customs without hindrance and to them I now also command to use this my kindness rather reasonably and not to despise the religious rites of the other nations, but to observe their own laws

[Jews were] fomenting a general plague on the whole world.

O my offense is rank, it smells to heaven.

Evidently, quality of wits is more important than quantity.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below