Caesar (2002)
Jeremy Sisto: Gaius Julius Caesar
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Quotes
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Aurelia : If you marry Cinna's daughter you will be identified with the popular party whether you wish or not.
Caesar : I wish it.
Aurelia : They are not our people.
Cousin : You wish to join with farmers and hagglers and beggars?
Caesar : Our family itself did not exactly drop straight out of Jupiter's ass.
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[Brutus is reading]
Caesar : Let me see... Plato's laws? Do you read this?
Marcus Brutus : Yes.
Caesar : And, what did you think of it?
Marcus Brutus : Well Plato thinks that democracy is doomed to failure; he thinks that a state should be run by a dictator, a dictator who's become enlightened through experience and learning.
Caesar : I don't think that your Plato would get on with your Uncle Cato.
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[Caesar is dying]
Caesar : Brutus...
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Caesar : There's a lot of Rome still out there, it just isn't called Rome yet.
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Caesar : [interviewing a prospective tutor for his daughter] Sophistry? Uh, doesn't that mean you know how to tell fancy lies?
Appolonius : There's great power in ambiguity, sir, but not all men use advantages to wicked ends.
Caesar : Are you experienced teaching the young?
Appolonius : Yes, I much prefer it to teaching the old.
Caesar : Why is that?
Appolonius : Because they exhibit more wisdom.