Julius Caesar was a Roman general and dictator whose assassination prompted the end of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Roman Empire. Nietzsche sees in Caesar an individual who is made great by the irreconcilable aspects of his nature, and the way that he had to become even stronger to master them.
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5. Natural History of Morals
...the need to constantly master the irreconcilable aspect of their being; among them Nietzsche counts Caesar and Leonardo da Vinci.
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