All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Men freely believe that which they desire.
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
The Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another.