Men willingly believe when they want to.
The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.
People readily believe what they want to believe.
I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.
Every woman's man, and every man's woman.
The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one's army