We had to study this at school and it has memorable lines aplenty. I could till recently recite the famous speeches from memory. Fragments still remain. 'King Lear','Antony and Cleopatra'and 'Macbeth' I love but this is a childhood (okay, a teenage) favourite. So I leave you with a quotation from Cassius (I liked him despite his villainy!) as he provocatively describes Caesar in order to rouse Brutus to betrayal and murder:
"Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus; and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
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(1.2.135)
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