The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
Valor is the soldier's adornment.
Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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.