Julius Caesar

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

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

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

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

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.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

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

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.