Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire. These Julius Caesar quotes will motivate you.
Best Julius Caesar Quotes
- “Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “Many of you wished me dead. Many of you perhaps still do. But I
hold no grudges and
seek no revenge. I
demand only this…that
you join with me in
building a new Rome, a
Rome that offers
justice, peace and land to all its citizens, not just the privileged few. Support me in this task, and old divisions will be forgotten. Oppose me,
and Rome will not
forgive you a second
time. Senators, the war is over.” ~ Julius Caesar -
“I came, I saw, I conquered.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and do it gladly so.” ~ Julius Caesar
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“Experience is the teacher of all things.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “Men, in general, are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one’s army” ~ Julius Caesar
- “All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.” ~ Julius Caesar
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“I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “I love treason but hate a traitor.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “It’s only hubris if I fail.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.” ~ Julius Caesar
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“The die has been cast.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “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.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “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.” ~ Julius Caesar
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“Arms and laws do not flourish together.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “To win by strategy is no less the role of a general than to win by arms.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “Which death is preferably to every other? ‘The unexpected’.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “In extreme danger, fear feels no pity.
[Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam nonrecipit.]” ~ Julius Caesar - “Men’s minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.” ~ Julius Caesar
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“I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “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.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “Beer … a high and mighty liquor.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “You also, O son Brutus.
[Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.]” ~ Julius Caesar , Julius Caesar quotes about Brutus - “In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “Our men must win or die. Pompey’s men have… other options.” ~ Julius Caesar
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“Men willingly believe what they wish.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.” ~ Julius Caesar
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“Every woman’s man, and every man’s woman.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “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.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “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.” ~ Julius Caesar , Julius Caesar quotes about power
- “Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt” ~ Julius Caesar
- “I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “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.” ~ Julius Caesar
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“People readily believe what they want to believe.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “In war, important events result from trivial causes.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “Men freely believe that which they desire.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “Men willingly believe when they want to.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look” ~ Julius Caesar
- “Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.” ~ Julius Caesar
