Julius Caesar
In the Essays of Michel de Montaigne
There are 113 instances of Julius Caesar in 45 chapters.
Normalized frequency of Julius Caesar in the Essays
- Book 1 · Chapter 16 · ¶ 4.
A Record of Some Ambassadors See how Caesar goes out of his way to make us understand his ingenuity in …
- Book 1 · Chapter 19 · ¶ 47.
To Philosophize Is to Learn to Die the exchange. I have also had several occasions to judge of what Caesar says, namely that things often seem bigger from a distance than up …
- Book 1 · Chapter 19 · ¶ 50.
To Philosophize Is to Learn to Die Caesar, after he glanced at the decrepit figure of one of his guards, …
- Book 1 · Chapter 22 · ¶ 44.
On Custom and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law men, Octavius and Cato, in the two civil wars of Sylla and Caesar, that they would rather suffer their country to undergo the last extremities, …
- Book 1 · Chapter 23 · ¶ 2.
Various Events Sharing the Same Premise neither means nor power in any other thing, but only to undertake Caesar? I quit the throne, if there be no other than I to …
- Book 1 · Chapter 23 · ¶ 13.
Various Events Sharing the Same Premise to the end they might repose as great an assurance in him. Caesar only opposed the authority of his countenance and the haughty sharpness of …
- Book 1 · Chapter 23 · ¶ 17.
Various Events Sharing the Same Premise I look upon Julius Caesar’s way of winning men to him as the best and finest that …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 42.
On the Education of Children the place where a battle has been anciently fought, the passages of Cæsar and Charlemagne: …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 108.
On the Education of Children a pleader, but rather a soldier-like style, as Suetonius calls that of Julius Caesar; and yet I see no reason why he should call it so. …
- Book 1 · Chapter 26 · ¶ 13.
It Is Folly to Measure the True and the False by Our Own Capacity throughout the whole world, the same day it was fought; and if Caesar was of opinion, that it has often happened, that the report has …
- Book 1 · Chapter 30 · ¶ 20.
On Cannibals feeding upon them too; as our own ancestors, who being besieged by Caesar in the city Alexia, resolved to sustain the famine of the siege …
- Book 1 · Chapter 35 · ¶ 8.
On the Custom of Wearing Clothes wear always the same clothes in winter that he did in summer. Caesar, says Suetonius, marched always at the head of his army, for the …
- Book 1 · Chapter 36 · ¶ 10.
On Cato the Younger attributed the cause of the younger Cato’s death to his fear of Caesar, at which he seems very angry, and with good reason; and by …
- Book 1 · Chapter 36 · ¶ 12.
On Cato the Younger Sit Cato, dum vivit, sane vel Caesare major, Let Cato, whilst he live, be greater than Caesar.❦ …
- Book 1 · Chapter 36 · ¶ 15.
On Cato the Younger says the second. And the third, speaking of the civil wars betwixt Caesar and Pompey, …
- Book 1 · Chapter 36 · ¶ 17.
On Cato the Younger And the fourth, upon the praises of Caesar: …
- Book 1 · Chapter 37 · ¶ 3.
How We Cry and Laugh at the Same Thing When Pompey’s head was presented to Caesar, the histories tell us that he turned away his face, as from …
- Book 1 · Chapter 39 · ¶ 1.
A Consideration on Cicero was thereby to get his living? If the acts of Xenophon and Caesar had not far transcended their eloquence, I scarce believe they would ever …
- Book 1 · Chapter 40 · ¶ 38.
The Taste of Good and Bad Things Depends Mostly on the Opinion We Have of Them upper hand. But he was a philosopher! What now? A gladiator of Caesar’s suffered the pain of his wounds being probed and cut clean with …
- Book 1 · Chapter 40 · ¶ 44.
The Taste of Good and Bad Things Depends Mostly on the Opinion We Have of Them Who ever looked for safety and rest as greedily as Alexander and Caesar looked for worry and hardship. Teres,∗ father of Sitalces, would never tire …
- Book 1 · Chapter 40 · ¶ 53.
The Taste of Good and Bad Things Depends Mostly on the Opinion We Have of Them looking to get ahead by the good graces of kings or fortune? Caesar borrowed a million more in gold than he was worth to become …
- Book 1 · Chapter 40 · ¶ 53.
The Taste of Good and Bad Things Depends Mostly on the Opinion We Have of Them borrowed a million more in gold than he was worth to become Caesar.❦ And how many merchants get a start by selling their farm and …
- Book 1 · Chapter 42 · ¶ 51.
On the Inequality among Us imaginary: every degree of fortune has in it some image of principality. Caesar calls all the lords of France, having free franchise within their own …
- Book 1 · Chapter 44 · ¶ 4.
On Sleep be decided, where Metellus, besides the favor of the people and of Caesar — at that time of Pompey’s faction — was to appear accompanied …
- Book 1 · Chapter 47 · ¶ 7.
On the Uncertainty of Our Judgment that puts not an end to the war. In the encounter where Caesar had the worst, near the city of Oricum, he reproached Pompey’s soldiers …
- Book 1 · Chapter 47 · ¶ 11.
On the Uncertainty of Our Judgment in to favor the first, of which opinion was Sertorius, Philopoemen, Brutus, Caesar, and others, that it is to a soldier an enflaming of courage …
- Book 1 · Chapter 47 · ¶ 13.
On the Uncertainty of Our Judgment very near running into the other mischief of losing the battle. Alexander, Caesar, and Lucullus loved to make themselves known in a battle by rich …
- Book 1 · Chapter 47 · ¶ 14.
On the Uncertainty of Our Judgment say, more reserved and cold.” This is what he says. But if Caesar had come by the worse, why might it not as well have …
- Book 1 · Chapter 48 · ¶ 5.
On War Horses ’Tis said, both of Caesar and Pompey, that among their other excellent qualities they were both very …
- Book 1 · Chapter 48 · ¶ 5.
On War Horses other excellent qualities they were both very good horsemen, and particularly of Caesar, that in his youth, being mounted on the bare back, without saddle …
- Book 1 · Chapter 48 · ¶ 6.
On War Horses after his death as to have a city erected to his name. Caesar had also one which had forefeet like those of a man, his …
- Book 1 · Chapter 48 · ¶ 6.
On War Horses of fingers, which likewise was not to be ridden, by any but Caesar himself, who, after his death, dedicated his statue to the goddess Venus. …
- Book 1 · Chapter 48 · ¶ 9.
On War Horses examples in the Roman history (and Suetonius more particularly observes it of Caesar) of captains who, on pressing occasions, commanded their cavalry to alight, both …
- Book 1 · Chapter 48 · ¶ 10.
On War Horses and horses, and therefore it is that we so often meet in Caesar: arma proferri, jumenta produci, obsides dari jubet.He commanded the arms to be …
- Book 1 · Chapter 48 · ¶ 21.
On War Horses miracle, “having never seen the like before,” which are his very words. Caesar, speaking of the Suabians: “in the charges they make on horseback,” says …
- Book 1 · Chapter 49 · ¶ 3.
On Ancient Customs wrapped their cloaks upon the left arm, and drew their swords❦ says Caesar; and he observes a vicious custom of our nation, that continues yet …
- Book 1 · Chapter 49 · ¶ 20.
On Ancient Customs is evident by their writings; they will as soon say Oppius and Caesar, as Caesar and Oppius; and me and thee, as thee and me. …
- Book 1 · Chapter 49 · ¶ 20.
On Ancient Customs by their writings; they will as soon say Oppius and Caesar, as Caesar and Oppius; and me and thee, as thee and me. This is …
- Book 1 · Chapter 49 · ¶ 27.
On Ancient Customs of the bed next the wall: and for that reason they called Caesar, spondam regis Nicomedis.The bed of King Nicomedes.❦ …
- Book 1 · Chapter 50 · ¶ 1.
On Democritus and Heraclitus governing method, ignorance. All motion discovers us: the very same soul of Caesar, that made itself so conspicuous in marshalling and commanding the battle of …
- Book 1 · Chapter 50 · ¶ 6.
On Democritus and Heraclitus strain was Statilius’ answer, when Brutus courted him into the conspiracy against Caesar; he was satisfied that the enterprise was just, but he did not …
- Book 1 · Chapter 51 · ¶ 4.
On the Vanity of Words to any great degree of eminence without the assistance of eloquence. Pompey, Caesar, Crassus, Lucullus, Lentulus, Metellus, thence took their chiefest spring, to mount to …
- Book 1 · Chapter 53 · ¶ 5.
On a Saying of Caesar desires, paying them all reverence and honor, according to the saying of Caesar: communi fit vitio naturae, ut invisis, latitantibus atque incognitis rebus magis confidamas, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 2 · ¶ 15.
On Drunkenness And the design of killing Caesar was as safely communicated to Cimber, though he would often be drunk, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 4 · ¶ 5.
Business Can Wait he commanded. And this very Plutarch has given me to understand, that Julius Caesar had preserved himself, if, going to the Senate the day he was …
- Book 2 · Chapter 8 · ¶ 37.
On the Affection of Fathers for Their Children Among other particular customs of our ancient Gauls, this, as Caesar reports, was one, that the sons never presented themselves before their fathers, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 8 · ¶ 51.
On the Affection of Fathers for Their Children I take it, the son of that great Labienus, the chief of Caesar’s captains in the wars of Gaul; and who, afterward, siding with Pompey …
- Book 2 · Chapter 8 · ¶ 51.
On the Affection of Fathers for Their Children Pompey the great, so valiantly maintained his cause, till he was by Caesar defeated in Spain. This Labienus, of whom I am now speaking, had …
- Book 2 · Chapter 8 · ¶ 57.
On the Affection of Fathers for Their Children for the most beautiful creatures of all Greece; or that Alexander or Caesar ever wished to be deprived of the grandeur of their glorious exploits …
- Book 2 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 22.
On Books his judgment when he condemns the action of the generous murderers of Caesar. Plutarch is frank throughout: Seneca abounds with brisk touches and sallies; Plutarch …
- Book 2 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 30.
On Books foreign, there to know the things of which they variously treat. But Caesar, in my opinion, particularly deserves to be studied, not for the knowledge …
- Book 2 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 32.
On Books would need but this example: Asinius Pollio found in the histories of Caesar himself something misreported, a mistake occasioned; either by reason he could not …
- Book 2 · Chapter 11 · ¶ 35.
On Cruelty soever, with a steady eye. Some one having to give testimony of Julius Caesar’s clemency; “he was,” says he, “mild in his revenges. Having compelled the …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 346.
Apology for Raymond Sebond souls, can we believe that the lion, in whom the soul of Caesar is enclosed, does espouse Caesar’s passions, or that the lion is he? …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 346.
Apology for Raymond Sebond the lion, in whom the soul of Caesar is enclosed, does espouse Caesar’s passions, or that the lion is he? For if it was still …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 346.
Apology for Raymond Sebond passions, or that the lion is he? For if it was still Caesar, they would be in the right who, controverting this opinion with Plato, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 7.
On Judging of the Death of Another Thence proceeded those words of Caesar to his pilot, more tumid than the sea that threatened him: …
- Book 2 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 10.
On Judging of the Death of Another credit iam digna pericula Caesar Fatis esse suis; tantusne evertere, dixit, Me superis labor est, parva quern …
- Book 2 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 19.
On Judging of the Death of Another In the civil wars of Caesar, Lucius Domitius, being taken in the Abruzzi, and thereupon poisoning himself, afterwards …
- Book 2 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 20.
On Judging of the Death of Another had given orders to kill him. For this reason it was that Caesar, being asked what death he thought to be the most desired, made …
- Book 2 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 21.
On Judging of the Death of Another If Caesar dared to say it, it is no cowardice in me to believe …
- Book 2 · Chapter 16 · ¶ 23.
On Glory To what do Caesar and Alexander owe the infinite grandeur of their renown but to fortune? …
- Book 2 · Chapter 16 · ¶ 23.
On Glory so great dangers I do not remember I have anywhere read that Caesar was ever wounded; a thousand have fallen in less dangers than the …
- Book 2 · Chapter 16 · ¶ 58.
On Glory have won two-and-fifty set battles, and always the weaker in number, as Caesar did: ten thousand brave fellows and many great captains lost their lives …
- Book 2 · Chapter 17 · ¶ 2.
On Presumption well as in others, what truth sets before him; if it be Caesar, let him boldly think himself the greatest captain in the world. We …
- Book 2 · Chapter 17 · ¶ 6.
On Presumption Alexander carry his head on one side, and caused Alcibiades to lisp; Julius Caesar scratched his head with one finger, which is the fashion of a …
- Book 2 · Chapter 17 · ¶ 26.
On Presumption round periods of Sallust best suit with my humor, yet I find Caesar much grander and harder to imitate; and though my inclination would rather …
- Book 2 · Chapter 18 · ¶ 1.
On Calling Out Lies worthy of imitation, and whose life and opinions may serve for example: Caesar and Xenophon had a just and solid foundation whereon to found their …
- Book 2 · Chapter 18 · ¶ 26.
On Calling Out Lies any quarrel. Their laws of duty steered some other course than ours. Caesar is sometimes called thief, and sometimes drunkard, to his teeth. We see …
- Book 2 · Chapter 22 · ¶ 3.
On Couriers Caesar says, that Lucius Vibullius Rufus, being in great haste to carry intelligence …
- Book 2 · Chapter 24 · ¶ 1.
On Roman Greatness volume of letters of his ad Familiares) there is one directed to Caesar, then in Gaul, wherein Cicero repeats these words, which were in the …
- Book 2 · Chapter 24 · ¶ 1.
On Roman Greatness repeats these words, which were in the end of another letter that Caesar had written to him: “As to what concerns Marcus Furius, whom you …
- Book 2 · Chapter 24 · ¶ 2.
On Roman Greatness It was no new thing for a simple citizen of Rome, as Caesar then was, to dispose of kingdoms, for he took away that of …
- Book 2 · Chapter 27 · ¶ 23.
Cowardice, Mother of Cruelty of Rome; a popular and civil defense. And besides the example of Caesar, who commanded his men to shoot chiefly at the face of Pompey’s …
- Book 2 · Chapter 31 · ¶ 11.
On Anger Suetonius reports that Caius Rabirius having been condemned by Caesar, the thing that most prevailed upon the people (to whom he had …
- Book 2 · Chapter 31 · ¶ 11.
On Anger determine the cause in his favor, was the animosity and vehemence that Caesar had manifested in that sentence. …
- Book 2 · Chapter 32 · ¶ 3.
In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch weak a judgment in the Roman affairs, that he dares to maintain Julius Caesar’s cause against Pompey, and that of Antony against Cicero. …
- Book 2 · Chapter 33 · ¶ 4.
The Story of Spurina The sole example of Julius Caesar may suffice to demonstrate to us the disparity of these appetites; for …
- Book 2 · Chapter 33 · ¶ 4.
The Story of Spurina the Curios, both father and son, afterwards reproached Pompey, when he married Caesar’s daughter, that he had made himself son-in-law to a man who had …
- Book 2 · Chapter 33 · ¶ 6.
The Story of Spurina sweat they presently died in one another’s arms. But I return to Caesar. …
- Book 2 · Chapter 33 · ¶ 8.
The Story of Spurina at a time when Catiline’s conspiracy was in question of which was Caesar was suspected, one came and brought him a letter sealed up. Cato …
- Book 2 · Chapter 33 · ¶ 8.
The Story of Spurina gave him notice of, required him to deliver into his hand, which Caesar was constrained to do to avoid further suspicion. It was by chance …
- Book 2 · Chapter 33 · ¶ 8.
The Story of Spurina upbraided him is wonderfully near akin to that wherein he had surprised Caesar; for Bacchus and Venus, according to the proverb, very willingly agree. …
- Book 2 · Chapter 33 · ¶ 11.
The Story of Spurina follow his example; they are extraordinary means, and that only appertain to Caesar’s fortune, and to his admirable foresight in the conduct of affairs. When …
- Book 2 · Chapter 33 · ¶ 12.
The Story of Spurina having employed many of his friends to mediate a reconciliation with him, Caesar voluntarily persuaded himself to write first to him. And our good Catullus, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 34 · ¶ 1.
Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War elsewhere still in repute; but the late Marshal Strozzi, who had taken Caesar for his man, doubtless made the best choice, seeing that it indeed …
- Book 2 · Chapter 34 · ¶ 9.
Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War With this courtesy Caesar mixed great severity to keep them in awe; the ninth legion having …
- Book 2 · Chapter 34 · ¶ 11.
Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War to harangue his army. Before that great battle with those of Tournay, “Caesar,” says he, “having given order for everything else, presently ran where fortune …
- Book 2 · Chapter 34 · ¶ 21.
Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War a general in the flower and first heat of his youth, whereas Caesar took up the trade at a ripe and well advanced age; to …
- Book 2 · Chapter 34 · ¶ 21.
Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War hot, and choleric constitution, which he also inflamed with wine, from which Caesar was very abstinent. …
- Book 2 · Chapter 34 · ¶ 26.
Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War Alexia; one, that the Gauls having drawn their powers together to encounter Caesar, after they had made a general muster of all their forces, resolved …
- Book 2 · Chapter 34 · ¶ 29.
Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War To return to Caesar. He grew, in time, more slow and more considerate, as his friend …
- Book 2 · Chapter 34 · ¶ 30.
Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War which was occasioned by the fault of Ariovistus’s light horse, wherein, though Caesar saw he had a very great advantage of the enemy, he would …
- Book 2 · Chapter 34 · ¶ 36.
Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War man of quality and quaestor, to whom Petronius sent answer back, that Caesar’s soldiers were wont to give others their life, and not to receive …
- Book 2 · Chapter 34 · ¶ 37.
Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War by those who were besieged in Salona, a city that stood for Caesar against Pompey, is not, for the rarity of an accident that there …
- Book 2 · Chapter 36 · ¶ 21.
On the Most Excellent Men all these things put together, I had reason to prefer him before Caesar himself, who alone could make me doubtful in my choice: and it …
- Book 2 · Chapter 36 · ¶ 21.
On the Most Excellent Men in those of Alexander. They were in many things equal, and peradventure Caesar had some greater qualities they were two fires, or two torrents, overrunning …
- Book 2 · Chapter 36 · ¶ 23.
On the Most Excellent Men but though Caesar’s ambition had been more moderate, it would still be so unhappy, having …
- Book 2 · Chapter 36 · ¶ 25.
On the Most Excellent Men has, in my idea, given as ample proof as Alexander himself or Caesar: for although his warlike exploits were neither so frequent nor so full, …
- Book 3 · Chapter 4 · ¶ 31.
On Diversion of an action, of a last recommendation, afflict us. The sight of Caesar’s robe troubled all Rome, which was more than his death had done. …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 106.
On Some Verses of Virgil their cause. I do not know whether the exploits of Alexander and Caesar really surpass the resolution of a beautiful young woman, bred up after …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 115.
On Some Verses of Virgil Lucullus, Caesar, Pompey, Antony, Cato, and other brave men were cuckolds, and knew it, …
- Book 3 · Chapter 6 · ¶ 44.
On Coaches the lightning and thunder of our cannon and harquebuses, enough to frighten Caesar himself, if surprised, with so little experience, against people naked, except where …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 59.
On Vanity evil; another evil may succeed, and a worse, as it happened to Caesar’s murderers, who brought the republic to such a pass, that they had …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 208.
On Vanity or the hazards of war may lend me a helping hand. Betwixt Caesar and Pompey, I should frankly have declared myself; but, as among the …
- Book 3 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 36.
On Conserving One’s Will Heaven never saw a greater animosity than that betwixt Caesar and Pompey, nor ever shall; and yet I observe, methinks, in those …
- Book 3 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 49.
On Conserving One’s Will commotion that this machine of the world ever underwent? for Pompey and Caesar were but the offsets and continuation of the two others: and I …
- Book 3 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 56.
On Physiognomy of so long a premeditation; and, therefore, it was the opinion of Caesar, that the least premeditated death was the easiest and the most happy. …
- Book 3 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 64.
On Physiognomy is much more easy to speak like Aristotle, and to live like Caesar, than to speak and live as Socrates did; there lies the extreme …
- Book 3 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 70.
On Physiognomy the lustre of her beauty. And I find that Cyrus, Alexander, and Caesar, the three masters of the world, never neglected beauty in their greatest …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 30.
On Experience for future changes, and the knowledge of his condition. The life of Caesar has no greater example for us than our own: though popular and …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 63.
On Experience a man hardens himself by being obstinate, and corrects his constitution, as Caesar did the falling-sickness, by dint of contempt. A man should addict himself …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 145.
On Experience When I see both Caesar and Alexander in the thickest of his greatest business, so fully enjoy …