I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.
Oh well, no matter what happens, there's always death.
I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?
In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.