Top 76 Quotes & Sayings by Julius Caesar

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

The die is cast.

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

Experience is the teacher of all things.

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

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

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

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

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

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

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.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

During a few days' halt near Vesontio for the provision of corn and other supplies, a panic arose from inquiries made by our troops and remarks uttered by Gauls and traders, who affirmed that the Germans were men of a mighty frame and an incredible valour and skill at arms.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

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

It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.

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

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

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

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

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

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

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.

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Beer ... a high and mighty liquor.

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

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.

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

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

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

The die has been cast.

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

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

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

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

I love treason but hate a traitor.

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

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

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

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

It's only hubris if I fail.

He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered.

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

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.

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

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

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.