Gaius Quotes & Sayings

Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was white marble and gilding and heady perfumes; the blare of trumpets and the shrieking of market-women and the eternal, sub-aural hum of more people, speaking more languages than Gaius had ever imagined existed, crammed together on seven hills whose contours had long ago disappeared beneath this encrustation if humanity. Rome was the pulsing heart of the world. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

The law speaks too softly to be heard amidst the din of arms. — Gaius Marius

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

Do not trouble yourself for your brethren, for we have already provided lands for them, which they shall possess forever. — Gaius Marius

I am in awe, in admiration of the man who Gaius Julius Caesar was. I don't actually do him as the man himself. He is maybe a distant relative. It's hard to approach the real man because he is such an awesome icon. — Karl Urban

Experience is the teacher of all things. — Gaius Julius Caesar

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

King Gaius began to laugh. It was a dark sound edged in danger and it made a chill run up Magnus's back as it echoed through the cavernous hall. — Morgan Rhodes

Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.) — Gaius Julius Caesar

I came, I saw, I conquered. — Gaius Julius Caesar

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

I am Caesar not Rex — Gaius Julius Caesar

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

As for Gaius, he has no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse dry-shod across the Gulf of Baiae. — Suetonius

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

If the beginning of wisdom is in realizing that one knows nothing, then the beginning of understanding is in realizing that all things exist in accord with a single truth: Large things are made of smaller things.
Drops of ink are shaped into letters, letters form words, words form sentences, and sentences combine to express thought. So it is with the growth of plants that spring from seeds, as well as with walls built from many stones. So it is with mankind, as the customs and traditions of our progenitors blend together to form the foundation for our own cities, history, and way of life.
Be they dead stone, living flesh, or rolling sea; be they idle times or events of world-shattering proportion, market days or desperate battles, to this law, all things hold: Large things are made from small things. Significance is cumulative
but not always obvious.
Gaius Secondus — Jim Butcher

Divide and Conquer. — Gaius Julius Caesar

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

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

[Merlin - on realizing the he'd killed a man with his magic.]
It was easy. It shouldn't have been so easy to do something so big ... So final ...
[Gaius] ... Oh Merlin! With magic or without it is always dreadfully easy to do something so big. And bigger. This is the terrible terrible lesson which we never learn from history. Hurting other people is never hard, even though it should be.. — FayJay

I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from the night. Although I have taken the form of Gaius Caligula, I am all men as I am no man and therefore I am a God. — Caligula

But are they heroes or mere dreamers? — Gaius Valerius Flaccus

When and where you are Gaius, I then and there am Gaia." The words make him smile, and he presses a soft kiss to my cheek. "When and where you are Gaia, I then and there am Gaius. — Stephanie Dray

I love the name of honor more than I fear death. — Gaius Julius Caesar

You can go lots of places as Gaius Baltar that other people aren't allowed to pursue. — James Callis

I love treason but hate a traitor. — Gaius Julius Caesar

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

To the followers of the murdered Caesar:
Do you march against Decimus Brutus Albinus in Gaul, or against the son of Caesar in Rome? Ask Marcus Antonius.
Are you mobilized to destroy the enemies of your dead leader, or to protect his assassins? Ask Marcus Antonius.
Where is the will of the dead Caesar which bequeathed to every citizen of Rome three hundred pieces of silver coin? Ask Marcus Antonius.
The murderers and conspirators against Caesar are free by an act of the Senate sanctioned by Marcus Antonius.
The murderer Gaius Cassius Longinus has been given the governorship of Syria by Marcus Antonius.
The murderer Marcus Junius Brutus has been given the governorship of Crete by Marcus Antonius.
Where are the friends of the murdered Caesar among his enemies?
The son of Caesar calls to you. — John Edward Williams

If there isn't an immediate surrender, they'll fight to take the palace." An anger burned inside Cleo's chest. "What will he do?" Emilia's grip on her hands tightened. "Had you been in the Limerian's clutches, I think he would have done anything to save your life." "And now that I'm back?" "Now," Emilia said, gazing into her sister's eyes, "if King Gaius is looking for a war, a war is exactly what he'll get. — Morgan Rhodes

For herself, RoseAnn chose to clean the countertops and do the laundry. — William Gaius

Brutus, a young man, over the fleet and those Gallic vessels which he had ordered to be furnished by the Pictones and the Santoni, and the other provinces which remained at peace; and commands him to proceed towards the Veneti, as soon as he could. He himself hastens thither with the land forces. — Gaius Julius Caesar

I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year. — James Callis

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

Princess," King Gaius said, standing as she took a seat. "You look beautiful today." "Thank you, your grace." Why did men always find it necessary to comment on whether or not a woman's exterior pleased them? She knew she was beautiful. No need to constantly restate it, as if doing so would earn one points in a game. The — Morgan Rhodes

She kissed his forehead. "The most important changes take time and patience. But I have faith in you - more than anyone else in the whole world. You are destined for greatness, Gaius Damora. And I swear - no matter what I must do to ensure it - that greatness will be yours. — Morgan Rhodes

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

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

Its like Mrs Fitzherbert all over again, or that bloody Simpson woman! I do not believe it!"
"Sorry," said Merlin, wondering who the blazes Mrs Fitzherbert and that bloody Simpson woman
were. He had a feeling Gaius didn't mean Marge. — FayJay

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

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

You fuss too much over making the "right" choice Gaius. All we need do is make a good choice, see it through, and accept the consequences. — Graham McNeill

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

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

Wait, wait," Gaius cut in, his grin mischievous. "Before we go any further. I must make introductions. Keita, this is Kachka Shestakova of the - "
"Do not," the She-dragon roared, startling the birds from the trees, and the men training nearby, "again bore me with those ridiculously long names! — G.A. Aiken

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