What another 'JC' may have meant ...

Poem by Douglas Colston

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Julius Caesar (100 BCE – 44 BCE) –
Roman general, statesman, author and historian –
is believed to have once written,

        “FERE LIBENTER HOMINES
        ID QUOD VOLUNT CREDUNT.”
 
The traditional reading of that passage
is something along the lines of,
        “Men generally believe
        what they want to believe”.
 
Rendered thus,
it is a maxim of sorts
that has a Stoic tone to it
(or some may perceive a Cynic).