People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Men in rage strike those that wish them best.

As all have to sleep together laid low in the earth, why do foolish people wish to injure one another?

Beware the man of one book. He sleeps in his armour.

Sleep,” he says. “I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “My bare hands, obviously.

Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch foul slanders against their betters and to offer them up as victims to the evil deity of popular envy.

It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage...

We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done

In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.

But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood, restless harbingers of violence and bloodshed, knowing no other path....