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Julius Caesar100–44 BC

Julius Caesar on power

I assure you I had rather be the first man here than the second man in Rome.

On passing through a village in the Alps, as attributed in Parallel Lives , by Plutarch, as translated by John Langhorne and William Langhorne (1836), p. 499

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