“Sed fortuna, quae plurimum potest cum in reliquis rebus tum praecipue in bello, parvis momentis magnas rerum commutationes efficit; ut tum accidit.”
— 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.
“I assure you I had rather be the first man here than the second man in Rome.”
“I will not ... that my wife be so much as suspected.”
— His declaration as to why he had divorced his wife Pompeia, when questioned in the trial against Publius Clodius Pulcher for sacrilege against Bona Dea festivities (from which men were excluded), in entering Caesar's home disguised as a lute-girl apparently with intentions of a seducing Caesar's wife; as reported in Plutarch's Lives of Coriolanus, Caesar, Brutus, and Antonius by Plutarch, as translated by Thomas North, p. 53
“It is not the well-fed long-haired man I fear, but the pale and the hungry looking.”
— As reported in Plutarch's Anthony'; William Shakespeare adapted this in having Caesar declare Cassius as having "a lean and hungry look."
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