Top 47 Julius Caesar Quotes
#2. I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
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#3. 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.
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#4. Fate, dear Brutus, lies not with the stars but within ourselves.
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#6. If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.
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#7. I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.
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#8. I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.
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#9. I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected.
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#10. No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.
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#11. I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.
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#12. As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
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#13. Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have ... other options.
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#15. A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never tast of death but once.
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#17. It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.
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#18. I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.
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#19. We have not to fear anything, except fear itself.
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#21. Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.
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#22. People readily believe what they want to believe.
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#23. Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.
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#24. Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.
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#25. As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.
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#26. The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.
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#27. I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
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#28. It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.
[Lat., Jus belli, ut qui vicissent, iis quos vicissent, quemadmodum vellent, imperarent.]
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#31. Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
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#33. War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.
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#35. 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 ...
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#36. In war, important events result from trivial causes.
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#39. As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
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#40. Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
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#41. Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt
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#42. Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.
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#43. 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
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#44. He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered.
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#45. To win by strategy is no less the role of a general than to win by arms.
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#46. 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.
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#47. 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.
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