| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 9998 |
| QUOTATION: | It does not disturb me that those whom I pardon are said to have deserted me so that
they might again bring war against me. I prefer nothing more than that I should be true to
myself and they to themselves. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Julius Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar] (100–44 B.C.), Roman general, political leader, and first Roman dictator. Letter to Cicero. Quoted in Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 9.16.2. |
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