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What, urge you your petitions in the street? Come to the capitol. I wish your enterprise today may thrive. He wished today our enterprise might thrive. I fear our purpose is discovered.
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A member of the public, Artemidorus, wants to warn Caesar of the conspiracy. He tries to give the letter to him as the senators are arriving at the Capitol. Cassius stops him. 'What are you doing?' he says 'Making your requests to Caesar in the streets? Come to the Capitol.' As the senators enter, Popilius, one of them says to Cassius, 'I hope your project succeeds today.' Cassius panics as he thinks Popilius knows about the conspiracy. Cassius then tells Brutus what he has said. He tells him: 'He said he hoped that our project would succeed. I fear that our conspiracy has been found out.'
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I need help with these quotes (I don't have the full quote)-...
"and keep us in servile
fearfulness..."
"I have veiled my look"
"Can you see your face?"
"Men at some time are masters of their fates"
"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look"
"...he would fain have had it."
"Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius"
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"and keep us in servile fearfulness..."
And keep us in a state of oppressed terror
"I have veiled my look"
I have hidden my true feelings
"Can you see your face?"
Are you able to look at your own face?
"Men at some time are masters of their fates"
Men can control their own destinies.
"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look"
That Cassius has a thin and hungry look about him
"...he would fain have had it."
He would have liked to have accepted the crown.
"Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius"
I will free myself from slavery
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. (Julius Caesar Act III, Scene II).
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Friends, Romans and fellow countrymen, hear me. I've come here to participate in Caesar's funeral, not to praise him.
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A dish fit for the gods. (Julius Caesar Act II, Scene I)
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A dish fit for the gods.
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But, for my own part, it was Greek to me (Julius Caesar Act I, Scene II)
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But as for me, I didn't understand a word he said.
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Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war. (Julius Caesar Act III, Scene I)
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Call for violence and start the war.
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Et tu, Brute! (Julius Caesar Act III, Scene I).
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You too, Brutus.
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Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. (Julius Caesar Act III, Scene II)
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It isn't because I didn't love Caesar, but that I loved Rome more.
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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. (Julius Caesar Act I, Scene II)
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Men can control their destinies. The reason that we are oppressed, dear Brutus, is not a matter of fate, but because we don't do anything about it.
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This was the noblest Roman of them all. (Julius Caesar Act V, Scene V)
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Brutus was the noblest Roman of them all.
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Beware the ides of March. (Julius Caesar Act I, Scene II)
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Beware the 15th of March.
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Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much: such men are dangerous. (Julius Caesar Act I, Scene II)
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That Cassius is thin and hungry looking. Men like that are dangerous.
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When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. (Julius Caesar Act III, Scene II)
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When the poor suffered Caesar cried for them. Ambition is tougher than that.
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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. (Julius Caesar Act II, Scene II)
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Cowards go through a death-like experience many times before they die. Brave men experience it only once. Of all the inexplicable things that I have ever heard it seems to me that the strangest is that men should fear death, seeing that, as it must inevitably happen, it will come when it comes.
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For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men. (Julius Caesar Act III, Scene II)
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As he was valiant, I honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
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Hello
I am asking you to PLEASE translate the following lines said by Brutus
in Julius Caesar.
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder;
And that craves wary walking. Crown him?-that-
And then, I grant, we put a sting in him,
That at his will be may do danger with.
Th' abuse of greatness is when it disjoins
THANK YOU
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It's the sunny day that brings the snakes out, and that means we have to tread carefully. If we crown him we will put a bite in him that will make him dangerous when he wants to be. Greatness is abused.
It means that if you crown Caesar king you will be giving him power that he could use against you
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What, urge you your petitions in the street? Come to the capitol. I wish your
enterprise today may thrive. He wished today our enterprise might thrive. I
fear our purpose is discovered.
Plain English Julius Caesar Quote
A member of the public, Artemidorus, wants to warn Caesar of the conspiracy. He tries to give the letter to him as the senators are arriving at the Capitol. Cassius stops him. 'What are you doing?' he says 'Making your requests to Caesar in the streets? Come to the Capitol.' As the senators enter, Popilius, one of them says to Cassius, 'I hope your project succeeds today.' Cassius panics as he thinks Popilius knows about the conspiracy. Cassius then tells Brutus what he has said. He tells him: 'He said he hoped that our project would succeed. I fear that our conspiracy has been found out.'
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I know this is a lot to ask, but if you can translate any at all it would be much appreciated. Thank you.
-Jeremy
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;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest--
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men--
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
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Friends, Romans and countrymen, please give me your close attention. I've come to attend Caesar's funeral, not to praise him. I would like to say that the bad things one does live on in people's memories; the good is often buried with their bodies. Let that be the Case with Caesar.
The noble Brutus has told you that Caesar was ambitious. If that was so it was a very serious failing, and it has had a serious consequence for him.
With Brutus and the others' permission - for Brutus is an honourable man, and all the others are too - I have come to speak at Caesar's funeral
He was a faithful and honest friend to me: but Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honourable man. He brought many captive prisoners back to Rome, whose ransoms filled the treasury. Does that seem like ambition?
When the poor have cried, Caesar has wept. Ambition is supposed to be something harder than that. Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honourable man.
You all saw how, on the Lupercal public holiday, I offered him a royal crown three times, which he rejected each time. Was that ambition? And yet Brutus says he was ambitious, and one sure thing is that Brutus is an honourable man.
I'm not trying to contradict the things Brutus said, but I'm here to speak about what I know.
You all loved him once, with good reason. What reason now stops you from mourning for him? Oh, what's happened to judgment? It's gone to wild animals and men have lost their reason. Excuse me, give me a moment. My emotions are overwhelming at the sight of Caesar's body and I must pause till I've recovered.
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I know where i will wear this dagger then;
Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius.
Therein, you gods, you make the weak most strong;
Therein, you gods, you tyrants do defeat.
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,
Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,
Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;
But life, being weary of these worldly bars,
Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
If i know this, know all the world besides,
That part of tyranny i do bear
I can shake off at pleasure.
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I know where I'm going to wear this dagger then. Cassius is going to
liberate Cassius from slavery. With this, you gods, you will make the
weak strong. With this, you gods, you defeat tyrants. Stony towers,
and walls of beaten brass, stuffy dungeons and strong iron chains
can't defeat the strength of the spirit. Life, when tired of these
worldly barriers, always has the power to end itself. Of all the
things in the world that I know, I know this: if I am the victim of
tyranny I can shake it off at any time I please.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths.
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It means that cowards fear death so much that they go through a death-like fear every time they think about death.
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