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• To win by strategy is no less the role of a general than to win by arms.

  Julius Caesar

  Winning, Roles, Arms

  "The Civil War". Book by Julius Caesar translated by Jane P. Gardner, 47 BC.

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

  Julius Caesar

  Inspirational, Life, Rome

  Francis Bacon 'The Advancement of Learning' pt. 2, ch. 23, sect. 36, based on Plutarch 'Parallel Lives' 'Julius Caesar' ch. 11

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• 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.

  Julius Caesar

  Punishment, Long, May

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

  Julius Caesar

  Life, Bravery, Unexpected

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

  Julius Caesar

  Life, Believe, Thinking

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• As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.

  Julius Caesar

  Confidence, Fear, Unusual

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

  Julius Caesar

  Positive Thinking, Men, Worry

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• Arms and laws do not flourish together.

  Julius Caesar

  Law, Together, Arms

  Julius Caesar (1879). “Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars”

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• Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.

  Julius Caesar

  Fear, Goes On, Boat

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

  Julius Caesar

  Fear, Men, Long

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• Beer ... a high and mighty liquor.

  Julius Caesar

  Funny, Beer, Funny Beer

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• 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

  Eye, Names, Honor

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

  Julius Caesar

  Death, Unexpected, Surprise

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• Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.

  Julius Caesar

  Wine, Men, Luxury

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• Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.

  Julius Caesar

  Obscurity, Unusual, Reefs

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

  Julius Caesar

  Life, War, Events

  "Quote Junkie: War and Patriotism". Book by Hagopian Institute, p.3, March 12, 2008.

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• Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options.

  Julius Caesar

  Winning, Men, History

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• Men willingly believe what they wish.

  Julius Caesar

  Believe, Ignorance, Men

  Julius Caesar “Commentaries on the Gallic Wars”, Gottfried & Fritz

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• In extreme danger fear feels no pity.
  [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]

  Julius Caesar

  Fear, Pity, Danger

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• Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

  Julius Caesar

  Wife, Caesar's Wife, Suspicion

  Oral tradition based on Plutarch 'Parallel Lives' 'Julius Caesar' ch. 10, sect. 9

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• Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.

  Julius Caesar

  Fear, Men, Mind

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• It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.

  Julius Caesar

  War, Pleasure, Treats

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 129-30, Bellum Gallicum, I. 36., 1922.

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• 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.

  Julius Caesar

  Warrior, Fearless, Soul

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• The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.

  Julius Caesar

  Believe, Thinking, Want

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• You also, O son Brutus.
  [Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.]

  Julius Caesar

  Son, Brutus, Murder

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