Best Julius Caesar Quotes

Julius Caesar Quotes About Shakespeare, Power, Life, Love & Leadership! In ancient Rome, Julius Caesar was a well-known general, political leader, and scholar who helped end the Roman Republic by becoming the first dictator of the Roman Empire after conquering Gaul. Despite his military success, political, practical understanding, and popularity among Rome’s lower and middle classes, enemies who feared his developing influence slew him.

It is widely accepted that Julius Caesar was born around July 13 of one hundred B.C. Because of his father’s sudden death in 85 BC, Caesar became the head of his own family when he was 16. He was right in the middle of a civil war among his uncle Marius and the Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla. Pirates kidnapped Julius Caesar in 75 B.C. while crossing the Aegean Sea on his way to Rhodes to study philosophy and oration. In 69 B.C., he became military tribune and quaestor of a Roman province.

In the following year, Caesar was appointed governor of Spain. With Pompey and Marcus Licinius Crassus, Caesar was elected consul in 59 B.C. due to his military and political successes. As governor of Gaul (north-central Europe) in 58 B.C., Caesar was in charge of an enormous army. At this time, Caesar wiped out Pompey’s last allies in the Middle East, Africa, and Spain. He became Rome’s dictator for ten years in 46 B.C., shocking his political rivals and paving the way for the fall of the Roman Republic later that year.

In the eyes of many, Caesar was a superb leader who had a good understanding of the human condition. Julius Caesar was killed on the “ides of March” (March 15) 44 BCE by around 40 Roman senators. William Shakespeare wrote a depiction of Julius Caesar’s life and legacy, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, in 1599.

Best Julius Caesar Quotes

1. “Which death is preferably to every other? ‘The unexpected’.”-Julius Caesar 
2. “Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.” -Julius Caesar 
3. “All Gaul is divided into three parts.” -Julius Caesar 
4. “Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.” -Julius Caesar 
5. “In war trivial causes produce momentous events.” -Julius Caesar 
6. “In war trivial causes produce momentous events.” -Julius Caesar 
7. “Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt.” -Julius Caesar 
8. “I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.” -Julius Caesar 
9. “People readily believe what they want to believe.” -Julius Caesar 
10. “In war, important events result from trivial causes.” -Julius Caesar 
11. “I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.” -Julius Caesar 
12. “The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.” -Julius Caesar 
13. “I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.” -Julius Caesar 
14. “To win by strategy is no less the role of a general than to win by arms.” -Julius Caesar 
15. “Every woman’s man, and every man’s woman.” -Julius Caesar 
16. “Our men must win or die. Pompey’s men have… other options.” -Julius Caesar 
17. “As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.” -Julius Caesar 
18. “Beer … a high and mighty liquor.” -Julius Caesar 
19. “Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.” -Julius Caesar 
20. “Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.” -Julius Caesar 
21. “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.” -Julius Caesar 
22. “Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.” -Julius Caesar 
23. “I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.” -Julius Caesar 
24. “It’s only hubris if I fail.” -Julius Caesar 
25. “It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure. -Julius Caesar 
26. Arms and laws do not flourish together.” -Julius Caesar 
27. “No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.” -Julius Caesar 
28. The die has been cast. -Julius Caesar 
29. “Men’s minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.” -Julius Caesar 
30. “All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.” -Julius Caesar