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I love the name of honor more than I fear death.
Gaius Julius Caesar
No te lisonjees con la idea lleva en sí una sangre que pueda cambiar de su verdadera calidad, por lo que hace bullir la sangre de ls necios: quiero decir por las palabras almibaradas, las reverencias humillantes y las lisonjas bajas y rastreras "(Cesar)
William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)
Julius Caesar is an ambivalent study of civil conflict. As in Richard II, the play is structured around two protagonists rather than one. Cesar and Brutus are more alike one another than either would care to admit. This antithetical balance reflects a dual tradition: the medieval view of Dante and Chaucer condemning Brutus and Cassius as conspirators, and the Renaissance view of Sir Philip Sidney and Ben Johnson condemning Caesar as tyrant. Those opposing views still live on in various 20th-century productions which seek to enlist them play on the side of conservatism or liberalism.
David Bevington (The Complete Works of Shakespeare)
Éste fue el más noble romano entre todos ellos. Todos los conspiradores, excepto él, hicieron lo que hicieron sólo por envidia al gran Cesar; sólo él, al asociarse a ellos, fue guiado por un pensamiento de general honradez y del bien común a todos. Su vida era pura, y de tal modo se combinaron en él los elementos, que la naturaleza, irguiéndose puede decir al mundo: “¡Este era un hombre!”" (Antonio)
William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)
Y por esto conviene que las almas nobles estén siempre asociadas a sus semejantes: porque ¿quién hay tan firme que no pueda ser seducido?" (Casio) "Ni las torres de piedra, ni los muros de bronce forjado, ni la presión subterránea, ni los fuertes anillos de hierro, pueden reprimir las fuerzas del alma; Porque la vida cansada de estas barreras del mundo, jamás pierde el poder de libertarse a sí misma. Y pues se esto, sepa además todo el mundo, que de la parte de tiranía que sufro me puedo sustraer cuando quiera." (Casio) "El abuso de la grandeza existe cuando ésta separa del poder el remordimiento; y a decir verdad de César, nunca ha sabido que sus afectos hayan vacilado más que su razón. "(Bruto) "Pero es prueba ordinaria que la humildad es para la joven ambición una escala, desde la cual el trepador vuelve el rostro; pero una vez en el más alto peldaño, da la espalda a la escala, alza la vista a las nubes y desdeña los bajos escalones por los cuales ascendió." (Bruto) "No te lisonjees con la idea lleva en sí una sangre que pueda cambiar de su verdadera calidad, por lo que hace bullir la sangre de ls necios: quiero decir por las palabras almibaradas, las reverencias humillantes y las lisonjas bajas y rastreras "(Cesar) "Hay lágrimas para su afecto, alegría para su fortuna, honra para su valor, y muerte para su ambición." (Bruto)
William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)
If a connoisseur of the irony of political life is struck solemn by it, if he talks of tragic irony, then he is a ‘wet’ Machiavellian, a Christian. If he is fascinated by it, intellectually interested, he is a central Machiavellian, like the master himself. If he is amused by the irony of political life, he is an extreme Machiavellian, a cynic, a man who enjoys the sufferings and embarrassments of others. Just as Machiavellians do not understand the nature of tragedy, so Grotians are unable to understand the structure or texture of irony, which has several strands. The first is that of mere accident. Thus Cesare Borgia made many precautions against Alexander VI's death… Machiavelli recalls: ‘On the day that Julius II was elected, he told me that he had thought of everything that might occur at the death of his father, and had provided a remedy for all, except that he had never foreseen that, when the death did happen, he himself would be on the point to die... Another strand of historical irony is multiple or cumulative causation of a single result. Thus there were many mistakes in Louis XII's policy in Italy: he destroyed the small powers; aggrandized a greater power, the papacy; and called in a foreign power, Spain. He did not settle in Italy, nor send colonies to Italy, and he weakened the Venetians... A third strand is the single causation of opposite results, or paradox. Marxists like this notion: the bourgeoisie created simultaneously a single world economy and the extreme of international anarchy… A fourth strand of irony is self-frustration, or failure. Men intend one result and produce another... Japan, too, by attempting to conquer China, did much to make China instead of herself the future Great Power of the Orient... A fifth strand in historical irony is that the same policy, in different circumstances, will produce different effects... The sixth and last strand is that contrary policies, in different circumstances, can produce the same effects. This is discussed in an unintentionally amusing way in The Discourses (bk III), when Machiavelli discusses whether harsh methods or mild are the more efficacious. He lists examples where humanity, kindness, common decency, and generosity paid political dividends, including Fabricius' rejection of the offer to poison Pyrrhus. But Hannibal obtained fame and victory by exactly opposite methods: cruelty, violence, rapine, and perfidy.
Martin Wight (Four Seminal Thinkers in International Theory: Machiavelli, Grotius, Kant, and Mazzini)
Divide and Conquer.
Julius Cesar