Men freely believe that which they desire.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

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

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.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look

Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed-men, and such as sleep o'nights; Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

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