Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar, known as Julius Caesar, was a Roman politician, general, and notable author of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire. In 60 BC, Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey formed a political alliance that dominated Roman politics for several years. Their attempts to amass power through populist tactics were opposed by the conservative ruling class within the Roman Senate, among...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth13 July 100
CityRome, Italy
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.
Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.
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...
As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.
I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.
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.
War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.
You also, O son Brutus. [Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.]
I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.
Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.