Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

Bad beginnings, bad endings.

Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.

When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.

Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.