I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look
Set honor in one eye and death in th' other, and I will look on both indifferently. I love then name of honor more than I fear death.
A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
Men freely believe that which they desire.