I remember reading in a textbook a while ago that when Julius visited Alexander the Greats tomb he said some epic quote. A curator asked if he wished to see any other of the leaders and Julius said something like "I came to see a king not peasants." I can't remember what I read other than it was a textbook that I feel is very reputable. Did he say anything like that or is it like a myth?
That was Augustus, not Caesar. The quote is preserved in Suetonius' life. "My wish was to see a king, not corpses."
Whether Augustus actually said that, who knows? Suetonius was a notorious gossip and, for as much good information as he has, passes along all kinds of stories. He includes stuff like this from Augustus' youth:
As soon as he began to talk, it chanced that the frogs were making a great noise at his grandfather's country place; he bade them be silent, and they say that since then no frog has ever croaked there.
That's some North Korea level bullshit right there.