Julius Caesar quotes:

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

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.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

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

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

Experience is the teacher of all things.

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

If we assume that the last breath of, say, Julius Caesar has by now become thoroughly scattered through the atmosphere, then the chances are that each of us inhales one molecule of it with every breath we take."

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

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

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

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.

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

And Brutus is an honorable man,

Fate, dear Brutus, lies not with the stars but within ourselves.

You also, O son Brutus. [Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.]

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

After divorce of Pompeia in 62 BC I feel that members of my family should never be suspected of breaking the law. -Meos tam suspicione quam crimine iudico carere oportere

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look

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.

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...

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

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

I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

All Gaul is divided into three parts.

The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.

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.

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never tast of death but once.

It's only hubris if I fail.

Beer ... a high and mighty liquor.

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

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

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

As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.

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

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

The die is cast.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

Many of you wished me dead. Many of you perhaps still do. But I hold no grudges and seek no revenge. I demand only this...that you join with me in building a new Rome, a Rome that offers justice, peace and land to all its citizens, not just the privileged few. Support me in this task, and old divisions will be forgotten. Oppose me, and Rome will not forgive you a second time. Senators, the war is over.

We have not to fear anything, except fear itself.

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

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

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

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

He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered.

It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure. [Lat., Jus belli, ut qui vicissent, iis quos vicissent, quemadmodum vellent, imperarent.]

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

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.

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.

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

In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]

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

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.

The die has been cast.

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

I love treason but hate a traitor.

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

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

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

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

Men willingly believe when they want to.

It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.

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

In war, important events result from trivial causes.

To win by strategy is no less the role of a general than to win by arms.

People readily believe what they want to believe.

I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.

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

I came to Rome when it was a city of stone ... and left it a city of marble

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

In war trivial causes produce momentous events.

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