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| Question | Answer |
| These growing feathers plucked from Caesar’s wing Will make him fly an ordinary pitch, Who else would soar above the view of men And keep us all in servile fearfulness. | Flavius- Desire to limit Caesar's power and free everyone from being servants |
| When Caesar says, “do this,” it is performed. | Antony- willingness to please Caesar |
| No, Cassius, for the eye sees not itself But by reflection, by some other things. | Brutus- figurative meaning we can't see our character only through interacting with other people |
| And since you know you cannot see yourself So well as by reflection, I, your glass, Will modestly discover to yourself | Cassius- I will show/ tell you how noble and great you are. |
| I love The name of honor more than I fear death. | Brutus- willingness to die in order to protect Rome; even from Caesar |
| Ye gods, it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone. | Cassius- pointing out Caesar's physical limitations which in his mind should negate Caesar from absolute power. |
| Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars But in ourselves, that we are underlings. | Cassius- We only have ourselves to blame for being weak and powerless |
| I'd rather be a villager Than to repute himself a son of Rome Under these hard conditions as this time Is like to lay upon us. | Brutus- ashamed to call himself a citizen of Rome if Caesar has absolute power. |
| Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous. | Caesar |
| I rather tell thee what is to be feared Than what I fear, for always I am Caesar. | Caesar |
| So can I. So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity. | Casca |
| Your flower of usurpation blooms out of my seed of complacency | Joshtus Butalicus |
| Poor man! I know he would not be a wolf But that he sees the Romans are but sheep. He were no lion were not Romans hinds. Those that with haste will make a mighty fire Begin it with weak straws. What trash is Rome, | Cassius |
| But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves. | Cicero |
| So vile a thing as Caesar! But, O grief, Where hast thou led me? I perhaps speak this Before a willing bondman. Then I know My answer must be made. But I am armed, And dangers are to me indifferent. | Cassius |
| Oh, he sits high in all the people’s hearts, And that which would appear offense in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness. | Casca |
| Him and his worth and our great need of him You have right well conceited. | Cassius- speaking of Brutus |
| ACT 2 How that might change his nature, there’s the question. It is the bright day that brings forth the adder | Brutus- speaking of Caesar |
| 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, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees | Brutus- On Caesar's potential rise |
| And therefore think him as a serpent’s egg— Which, hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous— And kill him in the shell. | Brutus- On Caesar, ( like a snake in an egg) we must kill him before his power hatches |
| Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream. | Brutus |
| To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, conspiracy. Hide it in smiles and affability. | Brutus- mask the conspiracy |
| O, name him not. Let us not break with him, For he will never follow anything That other men begin. | Brutus--speaking of Cicero |
| Let us be sacrificers but not butchers, Caius. We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar, | Brutus-rationale for not killing Antony |
| We shall be called purgers, not murderers. And for Mark Antony, think not of him, For he can do no more than Caesar’s arm When Caesar’s head is off. | Brutus- conscious of his public image/view of Antony |
| But when I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flatterèd. Let me work. For I can give his humor the true bent, And I will bring him to the Capitol. | Decius- Caesar's pride will lure him to the Capitol |
| Good gentlemen, look fresh and merrily. Let not our looks put on our purposes, But bear it as our Roman actors do, With untired spirits and formal constancy. And so good morrow to you every one. | Brutus- on public perception |
| Act 2 Scene 2 Caesar shall forth. The things that threatened me Ne'er looked but on my back. When they shall see The face of Caesar, they are vanishèd. | Caesar's rationale for going to the Capitol |
| What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods? | Caesar- gods determined fate. |
| Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. | Caesar- death is inevitable and unpredictable why lament something we have no control over. |
| Caesar should be a beast without a heart If he should stay at home today for fear. | Caesar's- own interpretation of the priest's ritual. |
| No, Caesar shall not. Danger knows full well That Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions littered in one day, And I the elder and more terrible. And Caesar shall go forth. | Caesar- more dangerous than danger |
| I will not come today. Tell them so, Decius. | Significance? |
| Shall Caesar send a lie? Have I in conquest stretched mine arm so far To be afraid to tell graybeards the truth? | Caesar- Pride |
| Your statue spouting blood in many pipes, In which so many smiling Romans bathed, Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck Reviving blood, | Decius |
| That every “like” is not the same, O Caesar, | Brutus- conflicting thoughts |
| My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation. If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayst live. If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive | ARTEMIDORUS |
| I could 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, | Caesar- ( not supported by Plutarch or Suetonius ) |
| o oft as that shall be, So often shall the knot of us be called “The men that gave their country liberty.” | Cassius |
| O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! | Antony |
| As Caesar loved me, I weep for him. As he was fortunate, I rejoice at it. As he was valiant, I honor him. But, as he was ambitious, I slew him. | Brutus |
| With this I depart: that, as I slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself when it shall please my country to need my death. | Brutus |
| Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interrèd with their bones | Antony |
| I am no orator, as Brutus is, But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man That love my friend. And that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him. For I have neither wit nor words nor worth, Action nor utterance nor the power of speech, To stir men’s blood. I only speak right on. | Antony |
| Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt! | Antony |
| Act 4 These many, then, shall die. Their names are pricked. Fetch the will hither, and we shall determine How to cut off some charge in legacies. | Antony |
| Therefore let our alliance be combined, Our best friends made, our means stretched. | Antony |
| And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, Millions of mischiefs | Octavius |
| There are no tricks in plain and simple faith. But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show and promise of their mettle. | Brutus |
| you yourself Are much condemned to have an itching palm, To sell and mart your offices for gold To undeservers. | Brutus speaking of Cassius |
| Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be graspèd thus? I had rather be a dog and bay the moon Than such a Roman. | Brutus |
| For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart And drop my blood for drachmas than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash | Brutus |
| A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities, But you make mine greater than they are. | Cassius |
| There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. | Brutus |
| Act 5 In your bad strokes, Brutus, you give good words. Witness the hole you made in Caesar’s heart, | Antony |
| If we do meet again, why, we shall smile. If not, why then this parting was well made. | Brutus and Cassius |
| This day I breathed first. Time is come round, And where I did begin, there shall I end. My life is run his compass. | Cassius |
| Caesar, thou art revenged, Even with the sword that killed thee. | Cassius |
| O hateful error, melancholy’s child, Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men The things that are not? | Messala |
| O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet! Thy spirit walks abroad and turns our swords In our own proper entrails. | Brutus |
| Our enemies have beat us to the pit.t is more worthy to leap in ourselves Than tarry till they push us. Good Volumnius, | Brutus |
| Caesar, now be still. I killed not thee with half so good a will. | Brutus |
| his was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar. He only in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. | Antony |
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