“I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.”

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

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

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

It’s only hubris if I fail.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

The die is cast.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Creating is the essence of life.

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.

I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.

When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.

You don’t really know what to believe until the Government denies it.

One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.

I believe that whatever doesn’t kill you, simply makes you stronger.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.