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Julius Caesar Important Quotations

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"Beware the Ides of March."
Speaker: Soothsayer
Meaning: a warning to Caesar to be carefully on the 15th of March
What's happening in the story: Caesar is in front of a crowd when the soothsayer says the warning.
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves that we are underlings."
Cassius; the problem is not bound in fate, but in our own inaction. We are harming the problem by staying below Caesar.
"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 grave."
Cassius; it is not noble to live under someone who thinks he is better than everyone else
"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous"
Caesar to Antony at the parade thingy, worried that cassius means trouble
"For his silver hairs will purchase us a good opinion, and buy men's voices to commend our deeds."
Metellus at the conspiracy meeting talking about getting cicero involved
"Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods."
Brutus, explaining why Antony need not be killed
"When beggars die, there are no comets seen: the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes."
Calpurnia tries to persuade Caesar to give credence to the omens and stay away from the Senate on the ides of March.
"Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once."
Caesar tells Calpurnia that he is not afraid of death.
"The Ides of March are come."
caesar being all sassy to the soothsayer
"Et tu Brute?"
Caesar's dying words
"This was the most unkindest cut of all."
Antony, showing the crowd Caesar's mantle, points out where Brutus stabbed Caesar.
"My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, and I must pause till it come back to me."
Anthony, He wants to be with Caesar again. Verbally avenging Caesar's death.
"Show you sweet wounds, poor, poor dumb mouths, and I bid them speak for me."
Antony saying he speaks for Caesar after his death
"It was Greek to me."
Casca's saracastic comment about a speech by Cicero.
"This was the noblest Roman of them all."
Antony praises dead Brutus
"But I am as constant as the Northern star."
caesar at the capitol who is explaining that he is firm with his decisions
"For he can do no more than Caesar's arm when Caesar's head is off."
Brutus talking to Cassius, the night before the conspiracy at the house. The quote reveals brutus's naivete
"O, 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 to Cassius
If we get Brutus, he will make killing Caesar seem like a good deed because he is respected and people admire him.
"He would be crowned.. How that might change his nature, there's the question."
brutus contemplating joining the conspiracy
"Speak hands for me."
Casca as he stabs caesar
"This dream is all amiss interpreted. It was a vision fair and fortunate."
Decius is convincing Caesar that what Calphurnia saw wasn't an omen, and that she misinterpreted it. Flattery & Persuasion.
"Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?"
Brutus speaking at Caesar's funeral and saying that he loved Caesar, but he had to kill him for the benefit of Rome.
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