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pride and arrogance

“I am as constant as the northern start”- Caesar

" Alas my lord you wisdom is consumed in confidence" - Calpurnia

“ but there is one that doth shall hold his place” - Caesar 

“ I rather tell thee what is to fear than what I fear for always I am Caesar” - Caesar 

“danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he “- Caesar 

“how foolish do your fears seem now Calpurnia” - Caesar 

“ you show your teeth like apes and fawned like hounds kissing Caesars feet” - Antony  

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honour and Duty

“since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar I have not slept“ - Brutus

“I love the name Honour more than I fear death“- Brutus

“not that I loved Caesar less but that I loved Rome more” - Brutus

“this was the noblest roman of them all” - Antony

“let us be sacrifices but not butches” - Brutus

“here was Caesar when come such another”

“woe to the hands that shed this costly blood” - Antony

“He only, in a general honest thought
And common good to all, made one of them.” - Antony

My ancestors did from the streets of Rome The Tarquin drive when he was called a king”- brutus

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jealousy and envy

“ why man he doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus” - Cassius

“and now this man has become a god and Cassius a wretched creature and must bend over backwards if Caesar carelessly but nods on him” - Cassius

““Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that ‘Caesar’? Why should that name be sounded more than yours?”“- Cassius

“I was born free as Caesar; so were you.”- Caesar 

“We both have fed as well, and we can both
Endure the winter’s cold as well as he.” - Cassius 

“All the conspirators… did that they did out if great envy”- Antony 

“is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings”

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revenge 

“woe to the hands that shed this costly blood” - Antony

“a curse shall light upon the limbs of men” - Antony 

“cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war”- Antony 

“Caesar thou art revenge” - Cassius 

“tho shalt see me at phillipi”- Caesar 

“ with the same blade that killed thee” - Cassius

“Caesar, now be still;
I kill’d not thee with half so good a will”

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ambition/ desire for power

"there is tears for his love joy for his fortune, honour for his valour and death for his ambition"- Brutus 

“Cassius has a lean and hungry look.” - Caesar 

“we petty men / Walk under his huge legs and peep about / To find ourselves dishonourable graves”- Cassius 

“he fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars But in ourselves” - Cassius 

“That lowliness is young ambition’s ladder, / Whereto the climber-upward turns his face” - Brutus 

I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse” - Antony 

“Why should Caesar be a tyrant then”- Cassius 

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prejudice

"and therefore think of him as a serpents egg which hatched his kind grow mischievous and kill him in the shell" - Brutus

“and for mark Antony think him for he can do no more than Caesar's arm when Caesar's head is off”

“ he’s a dreamer let him pass

“ for he is just a limb of Caesar”

“how foolish do your fears seem now Calpurnia”

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Justice 

“What villain touched his body, that did stab, And not for justice?” - Brutus 

“Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more” - Brutus 

“is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings” - Cassius 

“Let us be sacrifices, but not butchers”- Brutus

“Caesar must bleed for it”- Cassius

“let justice be done through the heavens fall”- Brutus

“ and death for his ambition”- Brutus