Julius Caesar

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

“Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.”

“He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Arms and laws do not flourish together.”

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

“I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected.”

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

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

“Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look”

“I love treason but hate a traitor.”

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

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

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

“Experience is the teacher of all things.”

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

“I came, I saw, I conquered.”

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

“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.”

“Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed-men, and such as sleep o'nights; Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous.”

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

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

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

“I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.”

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

“I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.”

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

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

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

“I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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”

“Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.”