“For the immortal gods are accustomed at times to grant favorable circumstances and long impunity to men whom they wish to punish for their crime, so that they may smart the more severely from a change of fortune.”
“If you must break the law, do it to seize power: In all other cases, observe it.”
“What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.”
“The res publica is nothing—a mere name without body or shape.”
“You too, my child?”
“Now that I am the leading Roman of my day, it will be harder to pull me down from first to second place than degrade me to the ranks.”
“No, I am Caesar, not king.”
“For those closest to a man ought not to allow his death to end their loyalty to him.”
“An omen! A prodigy! Let us march where we are called by such a divine intimation. The die is cast.”
“I merely want to protect myself against the slanders of my enemies.”
“My aim is to outdo others in justice and equity, as I have previously striven to outdo them in achievement.”
“I came, I saw, I conquered.”
     
—Julius Caesar