The most seditious is the most cowardly.
Whatever is unknown is magnified.
There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.
They make a desert and call it peace.
The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
One who is allowed to sin, sins less