Julius Caesar Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I love treason but hate a traitor.

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

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

Experience is the teacher of all things.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look

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

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

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.

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

He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered.

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

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

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

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

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

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

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

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

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