When I read Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet during my Third Year high school days, I was so bored. When I reread it again last year, I realized it wasn’t boring at all. I felt like Juliet waiting for my own Romeo to come and die for me and then we will give up our ghost together. Since then, I enjoyed reading classical novels.
Julius Caesar, another Shakespearian novel, is my recent read-this-book-again obsession. These are my favorite lines from the novel:
- (Brutus) Be not deceived. If I have veiled my look I turn the trouble of my countenance merely upon myself.
- (Cassius) Men are sometimes masters of their fates.
- (Brutus) The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
- (Calpurnia) When beggars die there are no comets seen, the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
- (Caesar) Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me the most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.
- (Caesar) Cannot is false, and that I dare not, falser.
- (Brutus) When love begins to sicken and decay it useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.
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