“Those that with haste will make a mighty fireBegin it with weak straws. What trash is Rome!What rub
“Those that with haste will make a mighty fireBegin it with weak straws. What trash is Rome!What rubbish and what offal! when it servesFor the base matter to illuminateSo vile a thing as Caesar!” (Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene 3.)“Oh, Parisians, you’re nothing but children! You’re happy to be in chains, so keep wearing them. Keep adoring the divine Necker, the heroic Lafayette, the immortal Bailly!” (Appel à la Nation, tr. Clifford Conner)Marat and Shakespeare’s interpretation of Cassius remind me a lot of each other, at least rhetoric-wise. I like to think they’d hang out, Cassius’ Roman aristocratic mores notwithstanding. -- source link
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