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21 " I came to Rome when it was a city of stone ... and left it a city of marble "
― Gaius Julius Caesar
22 " When I was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy”. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment and I told them they didn’t understand life. "
23 " Veni, Vidi, Vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered). "
24 " Et Tu Bruté? "
25 " I came, I saw, I conquered "
26 " I am Caesar not Rex "
27 " Ich liebe den Verrat, aber ich hasse den Verräter. "
28 " It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.... "
― Gaius Julius Caesar , The Civil War: With the Anonymous Alexandrian, African and Spanish Wars
29 " Etu Brute! "
30 " aut viam enveniam aut faciam "
31 " Veni, Vidi, Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered) "
32 " Cuando lleguemos a ese río, ya hablaremos de ese puente. "
― Gaius Julius Caesar , The Conquest of Gaul
33 " Friends, romans, countrymen lend me your ears i want to burry ceasar but not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them the good is often entered their their bones if it were so then let it be with ceasar. "
34 " Iacta alea est! "
35 " It is more important to have greatly extended the frontiers of the Roman spirit than the frontiers of the Roman empire. [Speaking of Cicero] "
36 " Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt. (Roughly: It's easy for men to believe what they want to.) "
37 " The Romans formed a line of mantlets and constructed a siege terrace. When they began to erect a siege tower at some distance, the defenders on the wall at first made abusive remarks and ridiculed the idea of setting up such a huge apparatus so far away. Did those pygmy Romans, they asked, with their feeble hands and muscles, imagine that they could mount such a heavy tower on top of a wall? (All the Gauls are inclined to be contemptuous of our short stature, contrasting it with their own great height.) 31. But when they saw the tower in motion and approaching the fortress walls, the strange, unfamiliar spectacle frightened them into sending envoys to ask Caesar for peace. The envoys said they were forced to the conclusion that the Romans had divine aid in their warlike operations, since they could move up apparatus of such height at such a speed. "
38 " Veni,vidi,vici "
39 " Y donde la capacidad no ocupa el primer lugar, no hay verdadera aristocracia de mente y espíritu. "
40 " He therefore built a bridge over the Saône and led his army across. Alarmed by his unexpected arrival and seeing that he had effected in one day the crossing which they had the greatest difficulty in accomplishing in twenty days, "