Julius Caesar Quotes

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

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

Experience is the teacher of all things.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered.

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

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

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.

It's only hubris if I fail.

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

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

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

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

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

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

The die has been cast.

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

All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in ours Gauls, the third.

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.

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

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

I love treason but hate a traitor.

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

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

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

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

Beer ... a high and mighty liquor.

And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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.

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

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.

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

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

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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