Julius Caesar Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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. — Julius Caesar

All Gaul is divided into three parts. — Julius Caesar

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

In war, important events result from trivial causes. — Julius Caesar

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

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

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

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. — Julius Caesar

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

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 — Julius Caesar

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

Every woman's man, and every man's woman. — Julius Caesar

And Brutus is an honorable man, — Julius Caesar

Men willingly believe what they wish. — Julius Caesar

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

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

We have not to fear anything, except fear itself. — Julius Caesar

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

Beer ... a high and mighty liquor. — Julius Caesar

He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered. — Julius Caesar

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

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 ... — Julius Caesar

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.] — Julius Caesar

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

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

It's only hubris if I fail. — Julius Caesar

Men freely believe that which they desire. — Julius Caesar

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. — Julius Caesar

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

Arms and laws do not flourish together. — Julius Caesar

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

Men willingly believe when they want to. — Julius Caesar

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

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion. — Julius Caesar

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments. — Julius Caesar

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

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

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

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look — Julius Caesar

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

People readily believe what they want to believe. — Julius Caesar

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

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

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

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

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. — Julius Caesar