Toggle navigation
Collections
Fun
Jokes
Fortune
Photo
Nicknames
Blog
ﻮﺑﻻگ
Iran
When Asked Why He Parted With His Wife, Caesar Replied, "I Wished My Wife To Be Not So Much As Suspected.
Home
›
Fortune Cookies
›
Miscellaneous Collections
When asked why he parted with his wife, Caesar replied, "I wished
my wife to be not so much as suspected."
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD)
-- Life of Caesar
Related:
Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortunes in your boat.
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Caesa...
For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in Rome.
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Caesa...
Young men," said Caesar, "hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Caesar Augustu...
As Athenodorus was taking his leave of Caesar, "Remember," said he, "Caesar, whenever you are angry, to say or do nothing before you have repeated the four-and-twenty letters to yourself.
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Caesar Augustu...
When some were saying that if Caesar should march against the city they could not see what forces there were to resist him
Pompey replied with a smile, bidding them be in no concern, "for whenever I stamp my foot in any part of Italy there will rise up forces enough in an instant, both horse and foot....
As Caesar was at supper the discourse was of death,--which sort was the best.
That," said he, "which is unexpected." -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Caesa...
After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friend
I came, I saw, I conquered." -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Caesa...
Using the proverb frequently in their mouths who enter upon dangerous and bold attempts, "The die is cast," he took the river.
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Caesa...
When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue.
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Demaratu...