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Gaius Julius Caesar (Classical Latin: GAIVS IVLIVS CAESAR) (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman religious, military, and political leader. He played an important part in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.
Historians Military leaders Politicians Also known as: Caesar, Caesar, Julius, Gaius Julius Caesar, Julius Cæsar, Julius ceasar, Cæsar
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As a rule in extreme peril fear admits no sense of pity.
The principal point of their doctrine is that the soul does not die and that after death it passes from one body into another.
The principal point of their [Druids] doctrine is that the soul does not die and that after death it passes from one body into another.
In extreme danger, fear turns a deaf ear to every feeling of pity.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
It is not the well-fed long-haired man I fear, but the pale and the hungry looking.
I assure you I had rather be the first man here than the second man in Rome.
To win by strategy is no less the role of a general than to win by arms.
Experience is the teacher of all things.
Not that I lov'd Caesar less, but that I lov'd Rome more.
Though last, not least in love!
Men willingly believe what they wish.
In extreme danger fear feels no pity.
Arms and laws do not flourish together.
I will not ... that my wife be so much as suspected.
With regard to their actual course of studies, the main object of all education is, in their opinion, to imbue their scholars with a firm belief in the indestructibility of the human soul, which, according to their belief, merely passes at death from one tenement to another; for by such doctrine alone, they say, which robs death of all its terrors, can the highest form of human courage be developed.
I prefer nothing but that they act like themselves, and I like myself.
Disputed
I'd rather ten guilty persons should escape, than one innocent should suffer.
Misattributed
Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.
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