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

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

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

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

Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.

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

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