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.

Beer ... a high and mighty liquor.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

Men willingly believe when they want to.

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