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• Hidden talent counts for nothing.
  • Quoted in "The Flames of Rome" - Page 221 by Paul L. Maier - 1991

• Qualis artifex pereo.
  • Translation: What an artist dies in me!
  • Translation: What an artisan I am in dying!
  • Translation: So great an artist, I die!
  • Quoted in "Nero" - Page 51 by Edward Champlin - History - 2003

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• Finally I can live like a human being.
  • after moving into the Golden House, built upon burned out areas after the great fire of Rome.

• The world is losing a great artist (dies).
  • Said when the Praetorian Guard forced his suicide.