The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
I love treason but hate a traitor.
Experience is the teacher of all things.
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.