Great Quotes from Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and subsequently became dictator from 49 BC until his assassination in 44 BC. He played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.”

“Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”

“Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!”

“The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.”

“Of all the wonders that I have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. (Act II, Scene 2)”

“Beware the ides of March.”

“There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.”

“His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!”

“Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.”

“When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.”

“Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come”

“And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.”

“There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.”

“The ides of March are come. Soothsayer: Ay, Caesar; but not gone.”

“Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.”

“But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.”

“Let me have men about me that are fat, …Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look, He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.”

“As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.”

“As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.”

“What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.”

“And Caesar’s spirit, raging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.”

“Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.”

“And it is very much lamented,… That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow.”

“I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.”