"Many of you wished me dead. Many of you perhaps still do. But I hold no grudges and seek no revenge. I demand only this…that you join with me in building a new Rome, a Rome that offers justice, peace and land to all its citizens, not just the privileged few. Support me in this task, and old divisions will be forgotten. Oppose me, and Rome will not forgive you a second time. Senators, the war is over."

"The die has been cast."

"Our men must win or die. Pompey’s men have… other options."

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

"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."

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

"The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look."

"Cowards die many times before their actual deaths."

"Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion."

"Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory."

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

"In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes."

"If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it."

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

"It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure."

"I came, I saw, I conquered."

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

"Men willingly believe what they wish."

"In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are."

"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."

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

"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."

"Arms and laws do not flourish together."

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

"Experience is the teacher of all things."

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

"Every woman’s man, and every man’s woman."

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

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

"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."

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

"Which death is preferably to every other? ‘The unexpected’."

"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. ~ Julius Caesar , Julius Caesar qu"

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

"In extreme danger, fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam nonrecipit.]"

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

"It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life."

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

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

"The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one’s army"

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

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

"All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures."

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

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

"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience."

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

"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."

"I love the name of honor, more than I fear death."

"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."

"People readily believe what they want to believe."

"What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also."

"Beer … a high and mighty liquor."

"In war, important events result from trivial causes."

"He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered."

"You also, O son Brutus. [Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.]"

"Men freely believe that which they desire."

"I love treason but hate a traitor."

"It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking."

"Men willingly believe when they want to."

"It’s only hubris if I fail."

"I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion."

"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look"