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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.
I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.
I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.
War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.
Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.
In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]
It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.
The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.
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 wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.
No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.
Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.
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.
During a few days' halt near Vesontio for the provision of corn and other supplies, a panic arose from inquiries made by our troops and remarks uttered by Gauls and traders, who affirmed that the Germans were men of a mighty frame and an incredible valour and skill at arms.
And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and do it gladly so.
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.