"Men willingly believe what they wish."
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"Set honor in one eye and death in th' other, and I will look on both indifferently. I love then name of honor more than I fear death."
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"Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'."
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"Caesar's wife must be above suspicion."
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"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."
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"I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments."
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"Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent."
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"Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options."
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"Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef."
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"To win by strategy is no less the role of a general than to win by arms."
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"As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things."
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"I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army."
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"The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think."
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"In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes."
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"Every woman's man, and every man's woman."
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"Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt"
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"Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces."
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"I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime."
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"Men willingly believe when they want to."
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"I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion."
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