53 Best Julius Caesar Quotes On Power & Leadership

1. “The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.” — Julius Caesar

2. “As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.” — Julius Caesar

3. “It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.” — Julius Caesar

4. “Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.” — Julius Caesar

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

6. “I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.” — Julius Caesar

7. “Men at some time are masters of their fates.” — Julius Caesar

8. “As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.” — Julius Caesar

9. “When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.” — Julius Caesar

10. “A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.” — Julius Caesar

11. “If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.” — Julius Caesar

12. “It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.” — Julius Caesar

13. “A piece of work that will make sick men whole.” — Julius Caesar

14. “Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.” — Julius Caesar

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

16. “I love treason but hate a traitor.” — Julius Caesar

17. “Experience is the teacher of all things.” — Julius Caesar

18. “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” — Julius Caesar

19. “Not that I lov’d Caesar less, but that I lov’d Rome more.” — Julius Caesar

20. “Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.” — Julius Caesar

21. “I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected.” — Julius Caesar

22. “Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.” — Julius Caesar

23. “The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.” — Julius Caesar

24. “War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.” — Julius Caesar

25. “If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.” — Julius Caesar

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

27. “All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.” — Julius Caesar

28. “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

29. “Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.” — Julius Caesar

30. “In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.” — Julius Caesar

31. “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.” — Julius Caesar

32. “Arms and laws do not flourish together.” — Julius Caesar

33. “Every woman’s man, and every man’s woman.” — Julius Caesar

34. “Let me have men about me that are fat… Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.” — Julius Caesar

35. “What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.” — Julius Caesar

36. “Fate, dear Brutus, lies not with the stars but within ourselves.” — Julius Caesar

37. “It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.” — Julius Caesar

38. “You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!” — Julius Caesar

39. “In war, important events result from trivial causes.” — Julius Caesar

40. “He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered.” — Julius Caesar

41. “There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.” — Julius Caesar

42. “Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.” — Julius Caesar

43. “To win by strategy is no less the role of a general than to win by arms.” — Julius Caesar

44. “I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.” — Julius Caesar

45. “Our men must win or die. Pompey’s men have… other options.” — Julius Caesar

46. “Men willingly believe what they wish.” — Julius Caesar

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

48. “Beware the ides of March.” — Julius Caesar

49. “Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!” — Julius Caesar

50. “I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.” — Julius Caesar

51. “I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.” — Julius Caesar

52. “O Judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason!” — Julius Caesar

53. “No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.” — Julius Caesar

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