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

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

The Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another.

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.

The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.

As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.