Julius Caesar Quotes

Men willingly believe what they wish.

I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.

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

Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt

Fate, dear Brutus, lies not with the stars but within ourselves.

Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

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

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

We have not to fear anything, except fear itself.

Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.

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

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

He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered.

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

It's only hubris if I fail.

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 have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

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

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

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

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

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

All Gaul is divided into three parts.

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

Beer ... a high and mighty liquor.

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

I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.

I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected.

Men willingly believe when they want to.

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

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

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look

Every woman's man, and every man's woman.

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

People readily believe what they want to believe.

I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.

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

In war, important events result from trivial causes.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

And Brutus is an honorable man,

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