As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
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.
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered.
I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.
Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.