In his speeches at Rome, his eloquence soon obtained him great credit and favour. He won the affection of the people by his friendly manners and politeness, in which he showed a maturity and consideration beyond what could have been expected at his age. 

Source: Plutarch. First century CE. Life of Caesar. (Translated by J. Dryden. Plutarch's Lives: Corrected from the Greek and Revised by A. H. Clough. 1906. Little Brown and Co.: Boston.) [Accessed online via Internet Archive. URL: http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/caesar.html.] (Adapted for a Year 7 audience.) 

Cicero was the first who had any suspicions of his plans for the government. Much like a sailor is apprehensive of a storm when the sea is smiling, Cicero saw the crafty temper of Caesar through his disguise of good humour and friendliness. Cicero said that, in all Caesar did and planned, he detected the ambition for absolute power. 

Source: Plutarch. First century CE. Life of Caesar. (Translated by J. Dryden. Plutarch's Lives: Corrected from the Greek and Revised by A. H. Clough. 1906. Little Brown and Co.: Boston.) [Accessed online via Internet Archive. URL: http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/caesar.html.] (Adapted for a Year 7 audience.) 

The first proof he had of peoples' good will toward him was when he was voted in as tribune by the army. ... A second and clearer instance of their favour is when he made a magnificent speech in praise of his Aunt Julia. ... It had always been the custom at Rome to make funeral orations of elderly matrons, but there was no precedent of any upon young women, until Caesar first made one upon the death of his own wife. This also procured him favour. By this show of affection, he won upon the feelings of the people, who looked at him as a man of great tenderness and kindness. 

... When he was made surveyor of the Appian Way [a main road in Rome], he paid for its upkeep, along with the public money, a great sum of his own private funds. When he was aedile [a type of senator], he provided a number of gladiatorial games... theatrical shows, processions, and public feastings. 

Source: Plutarch. First century CE. Life of Caesar. (Translated by J. Dryden. Plutarch's Lives: Corrected from the Greek and Revised by A. H. Clough. 1906. Little Brown and Co.: Boston.) [Accessed online via Internet Archive. URL: http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/caesar.html.] (Adapted for a Year 7 audience.) 

It is said that another time, when free from business in SPain, after reading some part of the history of Alexander, he sat a great while very thoughtful. At last, he burst out into tears. His friends were surprised and asked him why he was crying. "Do you think," he said, "I have no reason to cry, when I consider that Alexander, at my age, had conquered so many nations, and I have, in all this time, done nothing that memorable?" 

Source: Plutarch. First century CE. Life of Caesar. (Translated by J. Dryden. Plutarch's Lives: Corrected from the Greek and Revised by A. H. Clough. 1906. Little Brown and Co.: Boston.) [Accessed online via Internet Archive. URL: http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/caesar.html.] (Adapted for a Year 7 audience.) 

There is a law among the Romans that, whoever desires the honour of a Triumph must stay outside the city and wait for his answer. And another law that those who are standing for consulship must appear personally in place. 

... Caesar decided to skip his Triumph and pursue the consulship instead. Entering town, he came forward immediately... This reconciled Crassus and Pompey, the two men who were then the most powerful in Rome. There had been a quarrel between them, which Caesar now succeeded in making up. 

By these actions, he strengthened himself by their united power. Under the cover of an action which carried all the appearance of a piece of kindness and good nature, was really a revolution of the government. 

Source: Plutarch. First century CE. Life of Caesar. (Translated by J. Dryden. Plutarch's Lives: Corrected from the Greek and Revised by A. H. Clough. 1906. Little Brown and Co.: Boston.) [Accessed online via Internet Archive. URL: http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/caesar.html.] (Adapted for a Year 7 audience.) 

When the Roman senate heard news [about Caesar's victories], they voted for sacrifices and festivals to the gods.... The danger to which they had been exposed by the joint outbreak of such a number of nations was felt to have been a great. The people's fondness for Caesar gave additional shine to the successes achieved by him. 

Source: Plutarch. First century CE. Life of Caesar. (Translated by J. Dryden. Plutarch's Lives: Corrected from the Greek and Revised by A. H. Clough. 1906. Little Brown and Co.: Boston.) [Accessed online via Internet Archive. URL: http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/caesar.html.] (Adapted for a Year 7 audience.) 

When he came to the river Rubicon, which parts Gaul within the Alps from the rest of Italy, his thoughts began to work. He was entering upon danger. He wavered much in his mind when he considered the greatness of his plan, into which he was throwing himself.  He checked his course and ordered a halt while he revolved with himself, and often changed his opinion one way and the other, without speaking a word... At last, in a sort of passion, casting aside calculations, and abandoning himself to what might come, he said: "The die is cast!" With these words, he took the river. 

Source: Plutarch. First century CE. Life of Caesar. (Translated by J. Dryden. Plutarch's Lives: Corrected from the Greek and Revised by A. H. Clough. 1906. Little Brown and Co.: Boston.) [Accessed online via Internet Archive. URL: http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/caesar.html.] (Adapted for a Year 7 audience.) 

Returning from there to Rome, he crossed into Macedonia. After blocking Pompey for almost four months behind mighty ramparts, he finally routed him in the Battle of Pharsalus. Caesar followed Pompey who fled into Alexandria (in Egypt). When Caesar learned that Pompey had been killed there, he declared war on the Pharoah Ptolemy, who he perceived to be plotting against him as well! In truth, this war was really difficult. It wasn't convenient in time nor place. It carried on during the winter season, within the lands of a well-provisioned and crafty enemy, while Caesar himself was without supplies of any kind and
ill-prepared. In spite of this, he was still victorious, and he turned over the rule of Egypt to Cleopatra and her younger brother. 

Source: Suetonius. Second century CE. Life of Caesar. 35. (Translated by J. C. Rolfe. 1920. Suetonius, Volume 1. Harvard University Press: Cambridge.) [Accessed online by Fordham Internet Sourcebook. URL:  https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/ancient/suetonius-julius.asp.] (Adapted for a Year 7 audience.) 

Yet, despite [his good actions], his other actions and words turn the scale. It is thought that he abused his power and was justly slain. For, not only did he accept excessive honours, such as an uninterrupted consulship, the dictatorship for life, and the censorship of public morals, as well as the name Imperator (Latin for 'General'), the surname of Pater Patriae (Latin for 'Father of his Country'), a statue among the kings, and a raised couch in the [theatre], but he also allowed honours to be bestowed on him that were too great for a mortal man: a golden throne in the Senate... a chariot and litter... temples, altars, and statues besides the gods; a special priest... and the calling of one of the months by his name. In fact, there were no honours which he did not receive or accept with pleasure! 

Source: Suetonius. Second century CE. Life of Caesar. 76. (Translated by J. C. Rolfe. 1920. Suetonius, Volume 1. Harvard University Press: Cambridge.) [Accessed online by Fordham Internet Sourcebook. URL:  https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/ancient/suetonius-julius.asp.] (Adapted for a Year 7 audience.) 

As he took his seat, the conspirators gathered around him as if to pay their respects. Straightaway, Tillius Cimber (a senator), who had assumed the lead, came nearer to him as though to ask something. When Caesar with a gesture put him off to another time, Cimber caught his toga by both shoulders. Caesar cried: "Why, this is violent!" 

One of the Casca brothers (another senator) stabbed him from one side, just below the throat. Caesar caught Casca's arm and ran it through with his stylus (a pen). But as he tried to leap to his feet, he was stopped by another wound. When he saw that he was beset on every side by drawn daggers, he muffled his head in his robe... 

In this way, he was stabbed with 23 wounds, uttering not a word, but merely a groan at the first hit. Though some have written that when Marcus Brutus rushed at him, he said in Greek, "You too, my child?" 

All the conspirators ran off, and he lay there lifeless for some time, until finally, three common slaves put him on a littler and carried him home, with one arm hanging down. 

Source: Suetonius. Second century CE. Life of Caesar. 82. (Translated by J. C. Rolfe. 1920. Suetonius, Volume 1. Harvard University Press: Cambridge.) [Accessed online by Fordham Internet Sourcebook. URL:  https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/ancient/suetonius-julius.asp.] (Adapted for a Year 7 audience.)