Julius Caesar
It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.Collection: Men
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.Collection: Death
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.Collection: Patience
What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.Collection: Imagination
Experience is the teacher of all things.Collection: Experience
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.Collection: Legal
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.Collection: Great
Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.Collection: Death
Men freely believe that which they desire.Collection: Men
Men willingly believe what they wish.Collection: Men
It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.Collection: Life
During a few days' halt near Vesontio for the provision of corn and other supplies, a panic arose from inquiries made by our troops and remarks uttered by Gauls and traders, who affirmed that the Germans were men of a mighty frame and an incredible valour and skill at arms.Collection: Men
Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.Collection: Men
I came, I saw, I conquered.Collection: History
I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.Collection: Nature
As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.Collection: Men
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.Collection: Fear
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.Collection: Men
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.Collection: War
Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.Collection: Training
In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.Collection: Believe
The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.Collection: Enemy
A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.Collection: Coward
If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.Collection: Ambition
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.Collection: Courage
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.Collection: Hate
The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one's armyCollection: Loyalty
It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.Collection: Suffering
All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.Collection: Memories
The die has been cast.Collection: Latin
He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered.Collection: Conquer
To win by strategy is no less the role of a general than to win by arms.Collection: Winning
No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.Collection: Life
Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.Collection: Wine
Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.Collection: Moving On
I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.Collection: Men
Every woman's man, and every man's woman.Collection: Men
I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.Collection: Years
I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.Collection: Fighting
People readily believe what they want to believe.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Funny
I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.Collection: Believe
In war, important events result from trivial causes.Collection: War
Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt creduntCollection: Believe
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.Collection: Three
In war trivial causes produce momentous events.Collection: Military
I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.Collection: Wife
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry lookCollection: Looks
Men willingly believe when they want to.Collection: Believe