War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.

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 love treason but hate a traitor.

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.

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

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom they plan to punish for their crimes, so that they may feel it all the more keenly as a result of the change in their fortunes.