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Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It is one of several plays written by Shakespeare based on true events from Roman history, such as Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra.

“Of all the wonders that I have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
(Act II, Scene 2)”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

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“Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

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“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Caesar, Act II, scene ii.
Source: Julius Caesar (1599)

“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 dishonourable graves.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

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“What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.”

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“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 interred with their bones.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Antony, Act III, scene ii.
Julius Caesar (1599)

“This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,
Which gives men stomach to digest his words
With better appetite.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

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“You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!”

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“O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!”

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“And it is very much lamented,…
That you have no such mirrors as will turn
Your hidden worthiness into your eye
That you might see your shadow.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

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“The ides of March are come.
Soothsayer: Ay, Caesar; but not gone.”

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“Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

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“As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

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“As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.”

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“Let me have men about me that are fat… Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

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“But I am constant as the Northern Star,
Of whose true fixed and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

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“And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.”

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“Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.”

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“When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

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“There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

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