Nero:

No one has ever understood my genius.

— Nero Contemporary

Roman Emperor, fiddled while Rome burned

Reported by Suetonius, complaining about critics of his artistic endeavors.

c. 54-68 AD

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"What an artist the world loses in me!"

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"I have done nothing that I ought to be ashamed of."

"I have lived too long for my glory."

"I will make the Roman Empire eternal."

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