“Experience is the teacher of all things.”

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Men’s minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.

War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‘The unexpected’.

I love treason but hate a traitor.

Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one’s army.

He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered.

The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

I could live without my phone. And one thing I’d love to do is experience having the freedom that kids had back in the ’80s.

Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. ‘Disco Pigs’ was my first professional acting experience.

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience…When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.