Quotes About Caesar

Caesar was cremated on the spot.

Caesar had written a new will during the brief Italian holiday on his return from Spain in 45 B.C.

the established legions would refuse to fight under the command of one of Julius Caesar's assassins.

Then his colleague Pedius won approval for a bill that made Caesar's killing a crime

In this way he would avoid the humiliation of falling into Caesar's hands and, worse, having to endure a pardon.

AFTER PHILIPPI, NEARLY ALL THE men who had assassinated Julius Caesar were dead, and so was the Republic.

Caesar's heir was now ready to pounce. Both consulships were vacant

Caesar ordered his soldiers, all passionately loyal to him, to invade Italy.

Antony and other supporters of Caesar fled to their commander, who was waiting at the little

Pompey, jealous of Caesar's military achievements in Gaul, became increasingly friendly with the optimates.

Caesar intended to return to Rome, a conquering hero, and stand for consul for 48 B.C.

Brutus was high-minded, an intellectual who took ideas seriously. He saw the assassination of Caesar as a sacrifice rather than a political act. He was a man with "a singularly gentle nature," who feared civil war almost (although not quite) as much as tyranny.

From Antony's point of view, the arrival of Caesar's heir was an annoying distraction.

set on having their day in court and pressed for Caesar's early recall.

In late 45 B.C., the eighteen-year-old Gaius Octavius settled into lodgings at Apollonia.

even without access to Caesar's estate, Octavian had large sums of money at his disposal.

even if Antony held back the moneys due. He also put up for sale all Caesar's properties and estates.

Caesar's famous clemency, although regarded with some suspicion, contributed to an atmosphere of calm.

Men in public life did their best to avoid accidental events or actions from being seen as unlucky. On a famous occasion during the civil war, Caesar tripped when disembarking from a ship on the shores of Africa and fell flat on his face. With his talent for improvisation, he spread out his arms and embraced the earth as a symbol of conquest. By quick thinking he turned a terrible omen of failure into one of victory.

Caesar's ghost on the eve of the Battle of Philippi. We ignore them at our peril; we listen to them at the risk of our sanity. A French poet said, by the end of life, we all contain libraries and graveyards. It seemed to have happened to me already, my familiarity with both. I knew I had to get help with this now,

First, take a deep breath. Assume Shakespeare's account is accurate and Julius Caesar gasped "You too, Brutus" before breathing his last. What are the chances you just inhaled a molecule which Caesar exhaled in his dying breath? The surprising answer is that, with probability better than 99 percent, you did just inhale such a molecule.

The dumpling-eaters are a race sprung partly from the old Epicurean and partly from the Peripatetic Sect; they were first brought into Britain by Julius Caesar; and finding it a Land of Plenty, they wisely resolved never to go home again.

Paul opposed Rome with Christ against Caesar, not because that empire was particularly unjust or oppressive, but because he questioned the normalcy of civilization itself, since civilization has always been imperial, that is, unjust and oppressive.

Christians must have understood, then, that to proclaim Jesus as Son of God was deliberately denying Caesar his highest title and that to announce Jesus as Lord and Savior was calculated treason.