The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one's army.

No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.

If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

In war, important events result from trivial causes.

I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

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.

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

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

We have not to fear anything, except fear itself.

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never tast of death but once.

Which death is preferably to every other? The unexpected.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The die has been cast.

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.