Julius Caesar Quotes

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

Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.

He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered.

I love treason but hate a traitor.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look

The Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

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

In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.

No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

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

It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom they plan to punish for their crimes, so that they may feel it all the more keenly as a result of the change in their fortunes.

I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.

I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected.

People readily believe what they want to believe.

And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and do it gladly so.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Beer ... a high and mighty liquor.

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

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

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

Set honor in one eye and death in th' other, and I will look on both indifferently. I love then name of honor more than I fear death.

All Gaul is divided into three parts.

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

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

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

The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

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

All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in ours Gauls, the third.

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

Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options.

If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.

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

Every woman's man, and every man's woman.

Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt

Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed-men, and such as sleep o'nights; Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

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

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.