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
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Fate, dear Brutus, lies not with the stars but within ourselves.
Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.
Men willingly believe what they wish.
No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.
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.
Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.
It's only hubris if I fail.
The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.
In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]