“It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.”

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.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.