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aut prodesse volunt aut delectare poëtæ	poets wish either to profit or to please (Horace)
cautis pericula prodesse aliorum solent	prudent people are ever ready to profit from the experiences of others (Phædrus)
Cito fit quod dei volunt	What the gods want happens soon (Petronius)
disjecti membra poëtæ	limbs of a dismembered poet (sometimes said of a plagiarized work) (Horace)
equi et poëtæ alendi, non saginandi	horses and poets should be fed, not pampered (Charles IX of France)
est genus hominum qui esse primos se omnium rerum volunt, nec sunt	there is a class of men who wish to be first in everything, and are not (Terence)
et qui nolunt occidere quenquam posse volunt	even those who have no wish to kill anyone, would like to have the power (Juvenal)
Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt	Men readily believe what they want to believe. (Caesar)
fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt	men willingly believe what they wish to believe (Julius Cæsar)
Homines libenter quod volunt credunt	Men believe what they want to. (Terentius)
Homines libenter quod volunt credunt	Men freely believe what they want to. (Terentius)
libenter homines id quod volunt credunt	men willingly believe that which they wish for (Julius Cæsar)
Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt.	Men gladly believe that which they wish for (Julius Caesar)
nascimur poëtæ, fimus oratores	we are born poets, we become orators (Cicero)
nosse volunt omnes, mercedem solvere nemo	all wish to know, but no one wishes to pay the fee (Terence)

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