Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

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

The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.

I love treason but hate a traitor.

And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and do it gladly so.

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

I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.