Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
TacitusMore faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
TacitusThey have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.
Tacitus