50 Quotes by Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar, a Roman military general and statesman, played a pivotal role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. Born in 100 BCE, Caesar's military prowess and political acumen led to his rise as a powerful figure in Roman politics. His conquests, including the Gallic Wars, expanded the Roman Empire's territory and influence. In 49 BCE, Caesar famously crossed the Rubicon River, leading to a civil war and ultimately his appointment as "dictator perpetuo" (dictator in perpetuity), marking the end of the Roman Republic. Caesar's assassination on the Ides of March in 44 BCE marked a turning point in Roman history, leading to further political upheaval and the eventual rise of his grandnephew, Augustus, as the first Roman Emperor. Caesar's legacy endures as a symbol of military prowess, political ambition, and the complex interplay between individual power and the fate of nations. His name has become synonymous with both triumph and tragedy.
Julius Caesar Quotes
I came, I saw, I conquered. (Meaning)
Experience is the teacher of all things. (Meaning)
If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition. (Meaning)
All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures. (Meaning)
The die has been cast. (Meaning)
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. (Meaning)
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome. (Meaning)
He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered. (Meaning)
Cowards die many times before their actual deaths. (Meaning)
I love treason but hate a traitor. (Meaning)
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. (Meaning)
Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'. (Meaning)
It's only hubris if I fail. (Meaning)
Caesar's wife must be above suspicion. (Meaning)
Men willingly believe what they wish. (Meaning)
Every woman's man, and every man's woman. (Meaning)
I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments. (Meaning)
Men freely believe that which they desire. (Meaning)
In war trivial causes produce momentous events. (Meaning)
Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish. (Meaning)
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look (Meaning)
All Gaul is divided into three parts. (Meaning)
I came, I saw, I conquered.
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.
Experience is the teacher of all things.
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 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.
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
It's only hubris if I fail.
As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
"In extreme danger fear feels no pity."
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.
Arms and laws do not flourish together.
Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.
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.
Men willingly believe what they wish.
Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
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.
To win by strategy is no less the role of a general than to win by arms.
I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.
Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.
Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options.
Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.
The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.
I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.
As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Every woman's man, and every man's woman.
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 would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.
People readily believe what they want to believe.
Men gladly believe what they wish.
I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.
In war, important events result from trivial causes.
I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
Men willingly believe when they want to.
All Gaul is divided into three parts.
Men freely believe that which they desire.
Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look
In war trivial causes produce momentous events.
I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected.
― Julius Caesar Quotes
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