Character: Caligula

- What is a tyrant?
Blind soul.

- Need one day to educate the Senator, but to educate the employee at least ten years.
- And to make employee of the Senator, I'm afraid, not enough for twenty.

I just suddenly felt the need in the impossible. Things such as they are, do not suit me.

- Die than hurt my family.
I'm afraid it will happen.

Words can not convey. But I'll show you.

- And when you put them on a stake that you feel? The shame, the horror, the power? Answer me!
Nothing. I didn't feel it. And this is the worst evil.

- What kind of a man seeking hope in the arms of death?
- Desperate.

Then get lost, my precious. Man of honor is such a rare animal in this world that is too long to contemplate it to me hard. I need to be alone, to feel like this should be a wonderful moment.

Who is this God that I wanted him to be? Something I now strive with all their might, beyond all gods. I undertake to manage the power, which reigns the impossible.

Caligula. Oh, it's you. ( stops as if hesitating ) I haven't seen. ( slowly approaching ) What are you doing? Still writing? Could you show me your latest poems?
Scipio. ( awkward, as if oscillating between hatred of Caligula and some new, to him a strange feeling ). I wrote the poem, Caesar.
Caligula. What?
Scipio. Don't know, Caesar. Maybe about nature.
Caligula ( breaking the awkwardness ). Wonderful topic. And vast... But what do you care about nature?
Scipio ( he controls himself, ironically ). She comforts me when I remember that I am not a Caesar.
Caligula. But I Caesar. Whether it is to comfort me in this?

Cetonia ( indifferent ). From Caligula's something with the stomach. He was vomiting blood.
Patricia crowd around her.
The second patrician. O Almighty gods, vow that if he recover, I will donate to the state Treasury two hundred thousand sesterces!
Third patrician. ( excessively hot ). Jupiter! Take his life instead of mine!
Caligula for several minutes as entered and is listening.
Caligula ( closer to the second Patricia ). I accept your gift, Lucius. Thank you. My Treasurer will come to you tomorrow. ( Goes to third and Patricia hugs him. ) You can't imagine how I'm moved. ( After a pause, with tenderness ) you still love me?
Third patrician ( soulful ). Oh, Caesar, there is nothing in the world that would regret for I am for you.
Caligula ( still hugging him ). Ah, Cassius, you are too much! I don't deserve such love... ( Cassius makes a gesture of protest. ) No, no, I'm telling you, I'm not worthy... ( Beckons two guards. ) Take him away. ( Cassius, gently. ) Go, friend. And remember that now Caligula heart belongs to you.
Third patrician ( slightly alarmed ). But where are you taking me?
Caligula. To death. After all, you gave your life for mine. I began to feel better. Gone even this nasty taste of blood in his mouth. You healed me. If you're happy, Cassius? Glad to give his life for the life of another if the other Caligula? And I, meanwhile, is healthy again and ready for all celebrations of life.
The guards are away the third Patricia. He resists and screams.
Third patrician. I don't want! It was a joke!
Caligula ( dreamy, between the screams ). Soon the road to the sea will be covered with Mimosas. Women wear light dresses. The sky will be deep and fresh, Cassius. So smiling life!
Cassius almost there. Cetonia his ushers.
Caligula ( turning around, suddenly serious ). Life, my friend! If you loved her enough, I wouldn't be playing it so blithely.

Zenonia. Stupidity does not kill. It makes people careful.
Caligula. She carries death, Caesonia. It brings death, when he thinks himself insulted.

Caligula. The theme is death. Time - minute.
Poets quickly write on their signs.
<...>Kerey. You will take part in the competition, guy?
Caligula. I do not need. I already wrote an essay on this topic.
The old patrician. Where you can get it?
Caligula. I it differently they recite every day.

For understanding need to pay dearly - or to abandon it.