Gaius Iulius Caesar Quotes & Sayings

I came to Rome when it was a city of stone ... and left it a city of marble — Gaius Iulius Caesar

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

The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look. — Gaius Iulius Caesar

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. — Gaius Iulius Caesar

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected. — Gaius Iulius Caesar

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

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. — Gaius Iulius Caesar

The Romans formed a line of mantlets and constructed a siege terrace. When they began to erect a siege tower at some distance, the defenders on the wall at first made abusive remarks and ridiculed the idea of setting up such a huge apparatus so far away. Did those pygmy Romans, they asked, with their feeble hands and muscles, imagine that they could mount such a heavy tower on top of a wall? (All the Gauls are inclined to be contemptuous of our short stature, contrasting it with their own great height.) 31. But when they saw the tower in motion and approaching the fortress walls, the strange, unfamiliar spectacle frightened them into sending envoys to ask Caesar for peace. The envoys said they were forced to the conclusion that the Romans had divine aid in their warlike operations, since they could move up apparatus of such height at such a speed. — Gaius Iulius Caesar

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

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

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish — Gaius Iulius Caesar

Friends, romans, countrymen lend me your ears i want to burry ceasar but not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them the good is often entered their their bones if it were so then let it be with ceasar. — Gaius Iulius Caesar

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures. — Gaius Iulius Caesar

He therefore proceeded to build a bridge a little above the place where he had crossed before. As the method of construction was familiar to the soldiers from the previous occasion, they were able by energetic efforts to complete the task in a few days. — Gaius Iulius Caesar

Without training, they lacked knowledge.
Without knowledge, they lacked confidence.
Without confidence, they lacked victory. — Gaius Iulius Caesar

Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt. (Roughly: It's easy for men to believe what they want to.) — Gaius Iulius Caesar

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also. — Gaius Iulius Caesar

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. — Gaius Iulius Caesar