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Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
(1.2.135) |
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I rather tell thee what it is to be feared
Than what I fear; for always I am Caesar.
(1.2.211) |
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From that it is disposed: therefore it is meet
That nobles keep their likes;
For who so firm that cannot be seduced? Caesar doth bear me hard; but he loves Brutus
(1.2.320) |
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It must be by his death: and for my part, 10
I know no personal cause to spurn at him,
But for the general. He would be crown'd:
How that might change his nature, there's the question.
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder;
And that craves wary walking. Crown him?--that;-- 15
And then, I grant, we put a sting in him,
That at his will he may do danger with.
The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins
Remorse from power: and, to speak truth of Caesar,
I have not known when his affections sway'd 20
More than his reason. But 'tis a common proof,
That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
But when he once attains the upmost round.
He then unto the ladder turns his back, 25
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend. So Caesar may.
Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel
Will bear no colour for the thing he is,
Fashion it thus; that what he is, augmented, 30
Would run to these and these extremities:
And therefore think him as a serpent's egg
Which, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous,
And kill him in the shell.
(2.1.10) |
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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
(2.2.32) |
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I would be well moved, if I were as you.
If I could pray to move, prayers would move me;
But I am constant as the northern star...
(3.1.58) |
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And so it is. For this time I will leave you;
Tomorrow, if you please to speak with me,
I will come home to you; or, if you will,
Come home to me, and I will wait for you.
(1.2.308) |
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If then that friend demand
why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer:
Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved
Rome more.
(3.2.21) |
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For Antony is but a limb of Caesar.
Let's be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.
(2.1.165) |
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If he improve them, may well stretch so far
As to annoy us all: which to prevent, Let Antony and Caesar fall together
(2.1.156) |
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O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
(3.1.254) |
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'Twere best he speak no harm of Brutus here
(3.2.73) |
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Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times.
(3.1.256) |
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This was the noblest Roman of them all.
All the conspirators, save only he,
Did that they did in envy of great Caesar
(5.5.68) |
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Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.
Yond _____ has a lean and hungry look,
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.
(1.2.192) |
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But men may construe things after their fashion,
Clean from the purpose of the things themselves
(1.3.34-35) |
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Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face?
(1.2.51) |
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No, not an oath! If not the face of men,
The sufferance of our souls, the time's abuse--
If these be motives weak, break off betimes,
And every man hence to his idle bed
(2.1.114) |
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But do not stain
The even virtue of our enterprise,
Nor th'insuppressive mettle of our spirits,
To think that or our cause or our performance
Did need an oath
(2.1.132) |
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Romans, countrymen, and lovers!
Hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.
(3.2.13) |
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This dream is all amiss interpreted;
It was a vision fair and fortunate.
(2.2.83) |
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