Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

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.

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.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.

I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.