What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.
Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.
War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.