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Julius Caesar
Ancient Roman Historian
Ancient Roman Military Personnel
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The Eternal City
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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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Every woman's man, and every man's woman.
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It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
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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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Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt
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No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.
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In war trivial causes produce momentous events.
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It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
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Men willingly believe what they wish.
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I came, I saw, I conquered.
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People readily believe what they want to believe.
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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.
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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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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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It's only hubris if I fail.
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In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
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Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.
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War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.
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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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All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.
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As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
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