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

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

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

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.

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 the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.

Men freely believe that which they desire.