![]() “Men willingly believe what they wish.” ~ (Julius Caesar).ġ7. “The die has been cast.” ~ (Julius Caesar).ġ6. “Experience is the teacher of all things.” ~ (Julius Caesar).ġ5. “To win by strategy is no less the role of a general than to win by arms.” ~ (Julius Caesar).ġ4. “I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.” ~ (Julius Caesar).ġ3. “I love treason but hate a traitor.” ~ (Julius Caesar). “In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.” ~ (Julius Caesar).ġ1. “We have not to fear anything, except fear itself.” ~ (Julius Caesar).ġ0. “A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.” ~ (Julius Caesar).ĩ. Creating is the essence of life.” ~ (Julius Caesar).Ĩ. “It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.” ~ (Julius Caesar).ħ. “If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.” ~ (Julius Caesar).Ħ. “The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.” ~ (Julius Caesar).ĥ. Without confidence, they lacked victory.” ~ (Julius Caesar).Ĥ. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. “Without training, they lacked knowledge. “It’s only hubris if I fail.” ~ (Julius Caesar).ģ. “Fate, dear Brutus, lies not with the stars but within ourselves.” ~ (Julius Caesar).Ģ. In response, the Roman people lead by a moving speech at Caesar’s funeral, are going to take matters into their own hands and revolt against the Senate and Brutus’ armies (which in reality ushered in a series of Civil Wars).Julius Caesar was a general and statesman of the Roman Empire.īest Julius Caesar Quotes on Life, Success & Leadershipġ. Ultimately, Brutus is going to be swayed by members of the Senate to take destiny into their own hands and betray his good friend Julius Caesar. Whether it be the vision by the soothsayer (“Beware the ides of March”), or the subsequent fight between Caesar and his wife that resulted, Shakespeare, is constantly exploring this tension between whether, if something is destined to happen, we can actually be in control of our own actions. However, returning to the relevance of the play, keep in mind that the entire play is about the theme of fate and predestination. A man who, despite numerous reforms, oversaw the replacement of the Roman Republic and ushered it into an error of being the Roman Empire. Though he was using the line, at the time, to describe Adolf Hitler (whom it’d be very difficult to argue that the 20th century would have turned out the same without him) the quote could just as easily be applied to Julius Caesar as well. ![]() Returning to John Green who made a mantra in Crash Course History that “you’re either made by history or you make history.” It is widely believed that Cassius was trying to make the point that men may take control of their own fate. ![]() Though the quote is often misquoted, the interpretation seldom is. The speech that Cassius gives to Brutus is immediately preceded by Brutus mocking the crowd’s applause for Caesar with the line “some new honors that are heaped on Caesar.” What Did Cassius Mean? Who Was Cassius Talking To?Ĭassius was speaking to Brutus in the moments following his dedication to the reigning emperor Julius Caesar. This is important in terms of the history of the English language because the language Shakespeare uses to describe the event and the language Julius Caesar used when he was actually assassinated in 44 B.C. A show that came out in the late 1980s but describes the late 1960s, making it easy to confuse the two. If it helps, think of the show Wonder Years. It can be a little discombobulating that a play written 500 years ago describes an event that took place more than 2,000 years ago but that’s the reality of the situation. Historically the events described did, more or less, take place in some form and occurred more than 1,600 years before the writing of the famous play you had to read in school. Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is a dramatic retelling of the assassination plot, and subsequent fallout, of the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,īut in ourselves, that we are underlings. As is tradition, first we’ll give the FULL quote as it appears in the text before getting to its meaning and relevance within the play. ![]()
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