The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one’s army.
Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt.
No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.
Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.
Fate, dear Brutus, lies not with the stars but within ourselves.
The die has been cast.
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 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.
Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.
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.
Men willingly believe what they wish.
The Celts were fearless warriors because they wished to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another...
As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.
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 would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.
War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.
I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.
I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.
It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.
Every woman’s man, and every man’s woman.