Sulla threatens a young Julius Caesar, who can’t help but respond, unafraid, with a clever quip.

>Accordingly, once while he was in office, on his angrily telling [Caesar](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/C%C3%A9sar_%2813667960455%29.jpg) that he should make us of his authority against him, Caesar answered him with a smile, “You do well to call it your own, as you bought it.” ________________________ **tl;dr:** Sulla says that he may as well use the authority of his position to punish Caesar, at which point Caesar tells him that it’s funny because he paid good money to be in said position of authority. ________________________ **Source:** Plutarch, John Dryden, and Arthur Hugh Clough. "Sylla." *Plutarch's Lives*. New York: Modern Library, 2001. 609. Print. ________________________ **Further Reading:** [Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulla) [CAIVS IVLIVS CAESAR (Gaius Julius Caesar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar)