Book: Caesar and Cleopatra



- Rome itself does not create art, but it buys and takes it everywhere in the countries where it is created.
- What? Rome doesn't create art? And the world isn't art? War is not an art? Is the state not an art? Civilization is not art? All this we give you in exchange for a few trinkets.
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It was only as a slave of Caesar that I gained true freedom.
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He who has never known hope cannot despair. In a bad or good hour - Caesar always looks into the face of his fate.
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Where betrayal, lies and dishonor go unpunished, society is like an arena full of wild beasts tearing each other apart.
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When I return to Rome, I will enact laws against these excesses and even make sure that these laws are carried out.
Quote Explanation: There is an overkill in food. It is not enough to issue a law, it is necessary to take care of its implementation.
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When a fool does something of which he is ashamed, he always declares that it is his duty.
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Not a single person goes into battle to be killed.
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- If it does not flatter humanity, it is burned.
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- Are you ready to destroy the past?
- Yes. And I will build the future on its ruins.
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- Is it possible for the conqueror of the world, Caesar, to waste time on such trifles as our taxes?
- My friend, taxes for the conqueror of the world - the most important thing.
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Women easily deceive him. Their eyes blind him. He sees them not as they are, but as he wants to see them.
Quote Explanation: Caesar says about himself
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Their interest in the game and in the obscene anecdote quite fully characterizes the main circle of interests by which they live.
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Twenty centuries before your days, people were just like you, lived and spoke like you - no worse and no better, no smarter and no dumber.
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Beware of you who would all like to become Pompeii if you dare; for war is a wolf. and it can come to your door.
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If we kill a person, we will break the law and put ourselves on a par with the gods, and this we dare not do. But you are a Roman: you are accustomed to murder, for you have a passion to rule.
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