Julius Caesar

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow worldLike a Colossus, and we petty menWalk under his huge legs and peep aboutTo find ourselves dishonorable graves.Men at some time are masters of their fates.The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our starsBut in ourselves, that we are underlings.

I am not gamesome: I do lack some partof that quick spirit that is in Antony.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him; The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones

His life was gentle; and the elementsSo mixed in him, that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

He reads much;He is a great observer and he looksQuite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays,As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music;Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sortAs if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spiritThat could be moved to smile at any thing.Such men as he be never at heart's easeWhiles they behold a greater than themselves,And therefore are they very dangerous.

O that a man might knowThe end of this day's business ere it come!But it sufficeth that the day will endAnd then the end is known.

The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

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)

During a few days' halt near Vesontio for the provision of corn and other supplies, a panic arose from inquiries made by our troops and remarks uttered by Gauls and traders, who affirmed that the Germans were men of a mighty frame and an incredible valour and skill at arms.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

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

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

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

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

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.