Plutarch - Caesar Quotes

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As Caesar was at supper the discourse was of death,—which sort was the best. "That," said he, "which is unexpected."

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Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortunes in your boat.

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The man who is thought to have been the first to see beneath the surface of Caesar's public policy and to fear it, as one might fear the smiling surface of the sea.
Of cicero

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When some were saying that if Caesar should march against the city they could not see what forces there were to resist him, Pompey replied with a smile, bidding them be in no concern, "for whenever I stamp my foot in any part of Italy there will rise up forces enough in an instant, both horse and foot."

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Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force... but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] to his friends: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had had a commander who was a winner.'

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For we are told that when a certain man was accusing both of them to him, he [Caesar] said that he had no fear of those fat and long-haired fellows, but rather of those pale and thin ones.

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"Young men," said Caesar, "hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young."

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"And this," said Caesar, "you know, young man, is more disagreeable for me to say than to do."

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Caesar said to the soothsayer, "The ides of March are come;" who answered him calmly, "Yes, they are come, but they are not past."

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When asked why he parted with his wife, Caesar replied, "I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected."

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As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it.

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