Julius Caesar Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

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

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

When the swords flash let no idea of love, piety, or even the face of your fathers move you

I would rather be first in a small village in Gaul than second in command in Rome

The whole of Gaul is divided into three parts.

how to avoid getting stabbed in the back at work.

The evil men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones,

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

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

In war trivial causes produce momentous events.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look

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.

All Gaul is divided into three parts.

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

I love treason but hate a traitor.

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

And Brutus is an honorable man,

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

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

In war, important events result from trivial causes.

People readily believe what they want to believe.

Beer ... a high and mighty liquor.

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Men freely believe that which they desire.

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.]

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

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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.

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

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

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

It's only hubris if I fail.

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

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

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.

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

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

Men willingly believe when they want to.

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

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

He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered.

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

Experience is the teacher of all things.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

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.

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

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

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

We have not to fear anything, except fear itself.

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.