4 seconds sound clip from the Julius Caesar (1953) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:29:26 in the DVD version of the movie.
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- 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.
- And, since the quarrel will bear no color for the thing he is, fashion it thus, that what he is, augmented, would run to these and these extremities.
- And therefore think him as a serpent's egg which, hatched, would, as his kind, grow mischievous, and kill him in the shell.
- The taper burneth in your closet, sir.
- Searching the window for a flint, I found this paper thus sealed up, and I am sure it did not lie there when I went to bed.
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