66 Memorable Quotes By Julius Caesar
Roman politician and historian, Julius Caesar is credited for Latin prose. His contribution to history is unmatched. A highly intelligent man, he firmly believed in the power of brains over body. His intelligence helped him to rise to the top of political hierarchy in a relatively short span of time. His valour and battle skills was admired by the Romans, which eventually led him to become a dictator of the nation. Policies formed by Caesar are used till date. We have picked some of his most famous quotes from his speeches and writing that are relevant even today. Here some of his most powerful quotes on power, principles, pride, men, friendship, war, and revenge.
Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.
All Gaul is divided into three parts.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look
In war trivial causes produce momentous events.
Men willingly believe when they want to.
Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt
I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
People readily believe what they want to believe.
In war, important events result from trivial causes.
I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.
The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.
I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.
To win by strategy is no less the role of a general than to win by arms.
Every woman's man, and every man's woman.
Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options.
As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.
Beer ... a high and mighty liquor.
Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.
Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.
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.
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's only hubris if I fail.
It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.
Arms and laws do not flourish together.
No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.
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.
The die has been cast.
Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.
