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

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.

In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.

It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.