I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.
A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant taste of death but once.
It’s only hubris if I fail.
In war, important events result from trivial causes.
Arms and laws do not flourish together.
All Gaul is divided into three parts.
I love treason but hate a traitor.
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.
To win by strategy is no less the role of a general than to win by arms.
Men’s minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.
I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
In war trivial causes produce momentous events.
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.
The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Si vis pacem, para bellum.
Disappointed of this hope, some of the Helvetii endeavoured – generally, though not always, by night – to get across by lashing boats together and making a number of rafts, others by wading through the shallowest places. But the Roman troops always hastened up to the danger-points, and aided by the fortifications drove them back with volleys of missiles and forced them to abandon their attempts.