7/28/2023 0 Comments Julius caesar quotes about life![]() “If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.” “As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see” “Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.” The good is oft interred with their bones,” ![]() “What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.” “Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.” “It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.” “I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.” “In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes” “I would rather be first in a small village in Gaul than second in command in Rome” “Veni, vidi, vici.” “I came, I saw, I conquered.” On 15 March 44 BCE, the Roman dictator Julius Caesar was murdered by conspirators including Brutus (his illegitimate son). Caesar wrote on grammar, astronomy, philosophy, poetry, and the civil war (De Bello Civile) but his best known work is the De Bello Gallico. He was also considered overly ambitious, cruel to his enemies, and unscrupulous in politics. He was strict but fair, and his soldiers were very loyal to him. He was awarded divine posthumous honors, titles, statues, the status of dictator for life (dictator perpetuo).Ĭaesar was considered brilliant, decisive, resourceful, and calm under pressure. After defeating the senatorial forces led by Pompey, Caesar became the leader of Rome, soon taking the title of dictator. Crossing the Rubicon also made him a traitor to Rome. However, when Caesar crossed the Rubicon, he faced Pompey as an enemy. Take thou what course thou wilt.With Crassus and Pompey, Caesar formed the first Triumvirate. “I love the name of honour more than I fear death.”.“As Caesar loved me, I weep for him as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it as he was valiant, I honor him but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.”.“And it is very much lamented,… That you have no such mirrors as will turn, Your hidden worthiness into your eye, That you might see your shadow.”.He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.” “Let me have men about me that are fat… Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.“Our hearts you see not they are pitiful And pity to the general wrong of Rome- As fire drives out fire, so pity- Hath done this deed on Caesar.”.“When beggars die, there are no comets seen The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.”.“Set a huge mountain ‘tween my heart and tongue! I have a man’s mind, but a woman’s might.”.“But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality, There is no fellow in the firmament.”.“If then that friend demands why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.”.“There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.”.“O Judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason!”.“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life, Is bound in shallows and in miseries.”.“Set honor in one eye and death i’ the other, And I will look on both indifferently For let the gods so speed me as I love, The name of honor more than I fear death.”.“You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!”.“His life was gentle and the elements, So mixed in him that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, ‘This was a man!‘”.“It seems to me most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.”.“Not that I lov’d Caesar less, but that I lov’d Rome more.”.“Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.”.“Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.”.“The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones.”.“And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.”.“Cry ‘havoc,’ and let slip the dogs of war.”.
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