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

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

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

All Gaul is divided into three parts.

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.

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

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

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

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

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

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.

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

He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered.

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

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

I came, I saw, I conquered.

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

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

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

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

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

I love treason but hate a traitor.

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

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

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

In war, important events result from trivial causes.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected.

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

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.

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.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

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

Men freely believe that which they desire.

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options.

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.

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.

The die has been cast.