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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.
In war, important events result from trivial causes.
After divorce of Pompeia in 62 BC I feel that members of my family should never be suspected of breaking the law. -Meos tam suspicione quam crimine iudico carere oportere
I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed-men, and such as sleep o'nights; Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous.
In war trivial causes produce momentous events.
Men willingly believe when they want to.
All Gaul is divided into three parts.
I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.
Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt
Every woman's man, and every man's woman.
People readily believe what they want to believe.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look
I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected.
I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.
All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in ours Gauls, the third.