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The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

7 seconds sound clip from the Julius Caesar (1953) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:28:53 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- He would be crowned.

- How that might change his nature, there's the question.

- For it is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.

- Crown him. That.

- And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, that at his will he may do danger with.

- The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

- And, to speak truth of Caesar, I have not known when his affections swayed more than his reason.

- But 'tis a common proof that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber upward turns his face,

- But when he once attains the upmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend.

- So Caesar may.

- Then lest he may, prevent.

[...]

Julius Caesar (1953) Sound Clip

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Actors: Marlon Brando (Mark Antony), James Mason (Brutus), John Gielgud (Cassius), Greer Garson (Calpurnia)

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