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The Misunderstanding 4/5

“During the debate over the Catilinarian conspiracy Cato noticed that Caesar had just been slipped a note and demanded that it be read aloud, obviously hoping that it contained something incriminating. Caesar demurred and, when pressed, finally passed the note to Cato who was dismayed to find that it was in fact a passionate love letter from his own halfsister Servilia.”
Gaius Chadius Caesar

“People think a man suffers because the person he loves will one day die. But his true suffering isn't so trivial. His true suffering is noticing that not even sorrow lasts. That even grief loses its meaning.”

Caligula 4.5/5

“His aims were: firstly, once the city had been divided into two, to have his forces under the control of one authority with a single strategy; secondly, to enable help to be brought from one part of the town to the other to support his men if they were in difficulties.” An interesting passage considering Napoleon’s admiration for Caesar and a common theme among many of the Napoleonic campaigns.

“Lying deep within the French Revolution were the seeds of its own destruction because the concepts of liberty, equality, and fraternity are mutually exclusive. A society can be formed around two of them, but never all three.”

“Caesar was right to cite his good fortune and to appear to believe in it. That is a means of acting on the imagination of others without offending anyone's self-love.”
Napoleon, Caesar's Wars

“A type of cipher seemed to operate in my general experience of life. As in a corridor of mirrors, a single image is reflected again and again to an endless depth. Things that I had seen in the past were clearly reflected on those that I encountered for the first time, and I felt that I was being led by such resemblances into the inner recesses of the corridor, into some fathomless inner chamber.”