QuoteMemorizeAges 12–13 · The Hero's Journey
“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.”
— Mark Antony (William Shakespeare), 1599
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene ii
Antony's funeral oration over Caesar's body. A masterclass in rhetorical reversal: he turns the crowd against the assassins while repeatedly calling them honorable men.
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Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare
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