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- Men willingly believe what they wish.
- Julius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC), De Bello Gallico
- Veni, vidi, vici.
[I came, I saw, I conquered] - Julius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC), from Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars
- Et tu, Brute.
[You also, Brutus.] - Julius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC), from Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars
- It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
- Julius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC), from Plutarch, Lives
- Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
- Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), De Rerum Natura
- The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
- Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), The War with Catiline
- Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
- Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), The War with Catiline
- To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
- Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), The War with Catiline
- A snake lurks in the grass.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Eclogues
- Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Eclogues
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