Julius Caesar
I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected.Collection: Wife
After divorce of Pompeia in 62 BC I feel that members of my family should never be suspected of breaking the law. -Meos tam suspicione quam crimine iudico carere oportereCollection: Divorce
War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.Collection: War
I love treason but hate a traitor.Collection: Love
Arms and laws do not flourish together.Collection: Law
Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options.Collection: Winning
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.Collection: Eye
Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.Collection: Obscurity
As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.Collection: Confidence
No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.Collection: Ears
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.Collection: Punishment
It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.Collection: War
Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.Collection: Fear
It's only hubris if I fail.Collection: Failing
Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.Collection: Fear
Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.Collection: Wife
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.Collection: Warrior
The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.Collection: Believe
It is better to create than to learn. Creating is the essence of life.Collection: Learning
Fate, dear Brutus, lies not with the stars but within ourselves.Collection: Fate
The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one’s army.Collection: Loyalty