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Julius Caesar Main Quotes Flashcards

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  1. 1These 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
  2. 2When Caesar says, “do this,” it is performed.Antony- willingness to please Caesar
  3. 3No, 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
  4. 4And since you know you cannot see yourself So well as by reflection, I, your glass, Will modestly discover to yourselfCassius- I will show/ tell you how noble and great you are.
  5. 5I love The name of honor more than I fear death.Brutus- willingness to die in order to protect Rome; even from Caesar
  6. 6Ye 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.
  7. 7Men 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
  8. 8I'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.
  9. 9Let 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
  10. 10I rather tell thee what is to be feared Than what I fear, for always I am Caesar.Caesar
  11. 11So can I. So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity.Casca
  12. 12Your flower of usurpation blooms out of my seed of complacencyJoshtus Butalicus
  13. 13Poor 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
  14. 14But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.Cicero
  15. 15So 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
  16. 16Oh, 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
  17. 17Him and his worth and our great need of him You have right well conceited.Cassius- speaking of Brutus
  18. 18ACT 2 How that might change his nature, there’s the question. It is the bright day that brings forth the adderBrutus- speaking of Caesar
  19. 19That 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 degreesBrutus- On Caesar's potential rise
  20. 20And 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
  21. 21Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.Brutus
  22. 22To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, conspiracy. Hide it in smiles and affability.Brutus- mask the conspiracy
  23. 23O, name him not. Let us not break with him, For he will never follow anything That other men begin.Brutus--speaking of Cicero
  24. 24Let us be sacrificers but not butchers, Caius. We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar,Brutus-rationale for not killing Antony
  25. 25We 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
  26. 26But 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
  27. 27Good 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
  28. 28Act 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
  29. 29What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?Caesar- gods determined fate.
  30. 30Cowards 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.
  31. 31Caesar 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.
  32. 32No, 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
  33. 33I will not come today. Tell them so, Decius.Significance?
  34. 34Shall Caesar send a lie? Have I in conquest stretched mine arm so far To be afraid to tell graybeards the truth?Caesar- Pride
  35. 35Your statue spouting blood in many pipes, In which so many smiling Romans bathed, Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck Reviving blood,Decius
  36. 36That every “like” is not the same, O Caesar,Brutus- conflicting thoughts
  37. 37My 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 contriveARTEMIDORUS
  38. 38I 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 )
  39. 39o oft as that shall be, So often shall the knot of us be called “The men that gave their country liberty.”Cassius
  40. 40O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!Antony
  41. 41As 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
  42. 42With 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
  43. 43Friends, 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 bonesAntony
  44. 44I 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
  45. 45Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt!Antony
  46. 46Act 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
  47. 47Therefore let our alliance be combined, Our best friends made, our means stretched.Antony
  48. 48And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, Millions of mischiefsOctavius
  49. 49There 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
  50. 50you yourself Are much condemned to have an itching palm, To sell and mart your offices for gold To undeservers.Brutus speaking of Cassius
  51. 51Contaminate 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
  52. 52For 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 trashBrutus
  53. 53A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities, But you make mine greater than they are.Cassius
  54. 54There 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
  55. 55Act 5 In your bad strokes, Brutus, you give good words. Witness the hole you made in Caesar’s heart,Antony
  56. 56If we do meet again, why, we shall smile. If not, why then this parting was well made.Brutus and Cassius
  57. 57This day I breathed first. Time is come round, And where I did begin, there shall I end. My life is run his compass.Cassius
  58. 58Caesar, thou art revenged, Even with the sword that killed thee.Cassius
  59. 59O hateful error, melancholy’s child, Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men The things that are not?Messala
  60. 60O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet! Thy spirit walks abroad and turns our swords In our own proper entrails.Brutus
  61. 61Our enemies have beat us to the pit.t is more worthy to leap in ourselves Than tarry till they push us. Good Volumnius,Brutus
  62. 62Caesar, now be still. I killed not thee with half so good a will.Brutus
  63. 63his 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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