No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
Arms and laws do not flourish together.
Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.
I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.