Julius Caesar Quotes

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

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.

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

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered.

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

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

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 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.

It's only hubris if I fail.

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

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

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

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

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

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

The die has been cast.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I love treason but hate a traitor.

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

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

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

Beer ... a high and mighty liquor.

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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.

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.

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

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

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

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

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

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