A Quote by Julius Caesar

In war trivial causes produce momentous events.

Julius Caesar

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Causes Events Momentous Produce Trivial War

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Julius Caesar
Roman - Leader
100 BC - 44 BC

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

Julius Caesar

In war, important events result from trivial causes.

Julius Caesar

Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.

Roberto Rossellini

You know what I'm great at? Trivial Pursuit. What good is that gonna do you in life? It has the word 'trivial' in the name. The game is basically telling you that you pursue trivial things. Trivial - as in not important. Trivial - as in maybe you should've gone to grad school.

Christian Finnegan

Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later.

Mark Haddon

Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune, because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later.

Mark Haddon

No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.

Zelda Popkin

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with its own quality, and we must hope for the duration of this state rather than the recurrence of pleasurable events.

Andre Maurois

A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art.

Hallie Burnett

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.

Richard Armour

Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.

Leo Tolstoy

On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors.

Martin Seligman

From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There are new-born fanaticisms. Convictions on the part of certain peoples that they have become the unique depositories of ultimate truth and right.