Military Quote of the Day by General Julius Caesar: ‘It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience’

Military Quote of the Day by General Julius Caesar: ‘It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience’

The famous line about volunteering to die and enduring pain appears in Caesar’s Gallic War, though he places it in a Gallic leader’s speech. It still offers a powerful frame for Caesar’s rise from Sulla’s persecution and pirate captivity to Gaul, civil war, dictatorship and assassination.