I love treason but hate a traitor.

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I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

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

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Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.

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Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.

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I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.

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Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed-men, and such as sleep o'nights; Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

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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.

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People readily believe what they want to believe.

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

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