Scholars and thinkers are prone to an effeminate habit, and shrink if a coarser shout comes up from the street, or a brutal act is... recorded in the journals. The Medical College piles up in its museum its grim monsters of morbid anatomy, and there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history,--persecutions, inquisitions, St. Bartholomew, massacres, devilish lives, Nero, Caesar Borgia, Marat, Lopez; men in whom every ray of humanity was extinguished, patricides, matricides and whatever moral monsters. These are not cheerful facts, but they do not disturb a healthy mind; they require of us a patience as robust as the energy that attacks us, and an unresting exploration of final causes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Live a thousand years, I shall not find myself so apt to die.... No place will please me so, no mean of death, As here by Caesar, and by you cut off, The choice and master spirits of this age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 interrèd with their bones-- So let it be with Caesar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O mighty Caesar! Dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,... Shrunk to this little measure? Fare thee well.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You are not wood, you are not stones, but men; And being men, hearing the will of Caesar,... It will inflame you, it will make you mad.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »