Gaius Julius Caesar Quotes

THE COMMENTARIES OF Gaius JULIUS CAESAR

When I was 5 years old, my mom always told me that hap­pi­ness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy”. They told me I didn’t under­stand the assign­ment and I told them they didn’t under­stand life.

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

Alea iacta est

Being informed that it was not garrisoned, he tried to storm it directly he arrived, but the width of the moat and the height of the wall enabled the few defenders to repel his assault. After constructing a camp, therefore, he formed a line of mantlets and set about the usual preparations for a siege. But the next night, before his preparations were completed, the whole fugitive army of the Suessiones came crowding into the place. When they saw the mantlets rushed up to the wall, earth shovelled into the moat, and siege towers erected, they were alarmed by the impressive size of this apparatus, which had never before been seen or heard of in Gaul, and by the speed with which the Romans worked.

pues que suelen los dioses inmortales, cuando quieren descargar su ira sobre los hombres en venganza de sus maldades concederles tal vez prosperidad con impunidad más prolongada, para que después les cause mayor tormento el trastorno de su fortuna.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

i came i saw i conquered

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

I love treason but hate a traitor.

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

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Disappointed of this hope, some of the Helvetii endeavoured – generally, though not always, by night – to get across by lashing boats together and making a number of rafts, others by wading through the shallowest places. But the Roman troops always hastened up to the danger-points, and aided by the fortifications drove them back with volleys of missiles and forced them to abandon their attempts.

If a man were to know the end of this day's business ere had come; But it suffice us that the day will end, and then the end be known. If we meet again, well then we'll smile and if not, well then this parting was well made.

Veni,vidi,vici