Top 40 Julius Caesar Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.”

— Julius Caesar

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2. “Experience is the teacher of all things.”

— Julius Caesar

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3. “It is better to create than to learn. Creating is the essence of life.”

— Julius Caesar

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4. “Fate, dear Brutus, lies not with the stars but within ourselves.”

— Julius Caesar

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

— Julius Caesar

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

— Julius Caesar

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7. “The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.”

— Julius Caesar

8. “A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant taste of death but once.”

— Julius Caesar

9. “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”

— Julius Caesar

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

— Julius Caesar

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

— Julius Caesar

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

— Julius Caesar

13. “It’s only hubris if I fail.”

— Julius Caesar

14. “The die has been cast.”

— Julius Caesar

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15. “I love treason but hate a traitor.”

— Julius Caesar

16. “Men willingly believe what they wish.”

— Julius Caesar

17. “He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered.”

— Julius Caesar

18. “Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.”

— Julius Caesar

19. “The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one’s army.”

— Julius Caesar

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

— Julius Caesar

21. “In war, important events result from trivial causes.”

— Julius Caesar

22. “Men’s minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.”

— Julius Caesar

23. “It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.”

— Julius Caesar

24. “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.”

— Julius Caesar

25. “All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.”

— Julius Caesar

26. “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.”

— Julius Caesar

27. “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...”

— Julius Caesar

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

— Julius Caesar

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

— Julius Caesar

30. “Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.”

— Julius Caesar

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

— Julius Caesar

32. “Arms and laws do not flourish together.”

— Julius Caesar

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

— Julius Caesar

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

— Julius Caesar

35. “I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.”

— Julius Caesar

36. “Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt.”

— Julius Caesar

37. “War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.”

— Julius Caesar

38. “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.”

— Julius Caesar

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

— Julius Caesar

40. “In war trivial causes produce momentous events.”

— Julius Caesar

41. “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.”

— Julius Caesar

42. “Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.”

— Julius Caesar

43. “Every woman’s man, and every man’s woman.”

— Julius Caesar

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

— Julius Caesar

45. “All Gaul is divided into three parts.”

— Julius Caesar

46. “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.”

— Julius Caesar

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

— Julius Caesar

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

— Julius Caesar