Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.

Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.

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.

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