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Julius Caesar
Ancient Roman Historian
Ancient Roman Military Personnel
Ancient Roman Politician
Ancient Roman Priest
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The Eternal City
Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar IV
Gaius Iulius Caesar
Imperator Gaius Julius Gaii filius Gaii nepos Caesar Patris Patriae
Divus Julius
Gaius Julius Caesar
Iulius Caesar
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People readily believe what they want to believe.
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I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.
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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.
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War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.
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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.
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Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
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Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.
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It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.
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I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.
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Men freely believe that which they desire.
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In war trivial causes produce momentous events.
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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.
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To win by strategy is no less the role of a general than to win by arms.
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In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
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I came, I saw, I conquered.
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It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
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If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.
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A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.
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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
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Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt
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