As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.

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.

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.

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

I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.

Beer ... a high and mighty liquor.