No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.
All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.
Every woman's man, and every man's woman.
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt
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.