Julius Caesar Quote by Ray Dalio

“this period, they alone could elect the political officials of the Roman state; no matter how blue-blooded you were, you could only hold office…

— Mary Beard

“You do remember the lessons, however. Rome—corrupt, rich, and disorganized, a republic that ruled the world yet couldn’t rule itself. Its senators fighting for…

— Ilona Andrews

Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination…

— Barbara Tuchman

“The failure of the roman system to furnish decent minimal standards for the mass of people was a fundamental cause of instability, both political…

— H.J. Haskell

“I said that any sort of power is coercion of the people, and that the time will come when there will be no power,…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of…

— Henry Clay

“Caesar gave the ultimate definition of ambition when he said: ‘Better to be the chief of a village than a subaltern in Rome’.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“This argument—“We are all of us carried along by a fiery zeal to recover our liberty; our arms cannot be wrested from our hands,”97—was…

— Stephen P. Halbrook

“Rome would never have need of a dictator if she had such men in office, men so united in heart, as ready to obey…

— Livy

“I desired that the Senate of Rome might appear before me in one large chamber, and a modern representative, in counterview, in another. The…

— Jonathan Swift

“Caesar's messengers didn't go round the world saying, 'Caesar is lord, so if you feel you need to have a Roman-empire kind of experience,…

— N. T. Wright

“Achievement was worth of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become,…

— Tom Holland