Gaius Julius Caesar Quotes

veni vidi vici.

fortify the bank of the Rhône for a distance of eighteen miles between the Lake of Geneva and the Jura, the frontier between the Helvetii and the Sequani. This was effected by means of a rampart sixteen feet high with a trench running parallel. He then placed redoubts at intervals along the fortification and garrisoned them with pickets,

there is in the most occidental part of Iberia, a very strange society, they don´t rule themselves, nor do they allow others to rule them.

aut viam enveniam aut faciam

Veni Vidi Vici

I came, I saw, I conquered

Non Rex sum, sed Caesar

He therefore built a bridge over the Saône and led his army across. Alarmed by his unexpected arrival and seeing that he had effected in one day the crossing which they had the greatest difficulty in accomplishing in twenty days,

Etu Brute!

Veni,vidi,vici

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

I love treason but hate a traitor.

There is a river called the Saône, which flows through the territories of the Aedui and the Sequani into the Rhône with an extremely sluggish current, so that the eye cannot tell in which direction it is going. The Helvetii were crossing this river on rafts and small boats tied together. On learning from his patrols that they had got three quarters of their forces across, but that the remaining quarter was still on the east bank, Caesar left camp with three legions some time after midnight and came into contact with the division that had not yet crossed. Attacking them unexpectedly when they were hampered by baggage, he destroyed a large number, and the rest took to flight and hid in the neighbouring woods.

In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are

Without training, they lacked knowledge.
Without knowledge, they lacked confidence.
Without confidence, they lacked victory