Julius Caesar Quotes

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

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

I came, I saw, I conquered.

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

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

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

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

Experience is the teacher of all things.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

The die has been cast.

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

He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered.

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

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

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

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

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