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
I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.
Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
You also, O son Brutus. [Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.]
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 would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.
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 oportere
I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.
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...
Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.
Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt
As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
Men freely believe that which they desire.
It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure. [Lat., Jus belli, ut qui vicissent, iis quos vicissent, quemadmodum vellent, imperarent.]