Julius Caesar Quotes - Page 2

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

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.

I love treason but hate a traitor.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

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

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

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

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

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.

Beer ... a high and mighty liquor.

It's only hubris if I fail.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

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.

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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