Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

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.

People readily believe what they want to believe.

It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.

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

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.