The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.
I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.
Men willingly believe what they wish.
The die has been cast.
Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt
A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.