"What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also."
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"Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true."
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"As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can."
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"In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]"
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"Cowards die many times before their actual deaths."
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"It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure."
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"The die has been cast."
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"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience."
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"No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected."
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"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."
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"It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking."
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"Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle."
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"No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance."
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"War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished."
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"I love treason but hate a traitor."
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"I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome."
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"You also, O son Brutus. [Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.]"
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"Beer ... a high and mighty liquor."
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"Arms and laws do not flourish together."
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"Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat."
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