I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

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

War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.

Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.

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

Beer ... a high and mighty liquor.

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