Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.
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.
Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.
Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt