I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

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.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

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