“Men at some time are masters of their fates.”

Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.

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.

Tis writ on Paradise’s gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate!

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.