It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.

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.

I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.

The die has been cast.

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

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

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.