改编自尤利乌斯•凯撒威廉·莎士比亚著。82 - 117 (1599)

[这是马克·安东尼的演讲]

朋友们，罗马人，同胞们，请听我说!

我是来埋葬凯撒的，不是来赞美他的。

人所做的恶在死后还会继续存在，

好人往往和他们的骨头一起埋葬;

让凯撒也这样吧。高贵的布鲁特斯

他告诉过你，恺撒野心勃勃;

如果真是这样，那真是大错特错了，

恺撒痛苦地回答了这个问题。

在这里，布鲁图斯和其他人同意了

因为布鲁图斯是个可敬的人;

他们都是这样，都是可敬的人

我来在凯撒的葬礼上讲话。

他是我的朋友，对我忠诚而公正;

但布鲁图斯说他野心勃勃，

布鲁图斯是个可敬的人。

他把许多俘虏带回罗马，

他的赎金填满了国库。

这在《凯撒》中是否显得雄心勃勃?

穷人哭的时候，凯撒哭了。

野心应该由更严厉的材料构成:

布鲁图斯说他野心勃勃，

布鲁图斯是个可敬的人。

你们都在路珀卡尔号上看到了[一个公共的节日］

我三次向他献上王冠，

他拒绝了三次。这是野心吗?

布鲁图斯说他野心勃勃，

当然，他是个可敬的人。

我说这话不是要反驳布鲁图斯的话，

但在这里我要说的是我所知道的。

你们都曾经爱过他，不是没有理由的;

那你为什么不为他哀悼呢?

审判啊，你逃到野兽那里去了，

人们失去了理智。忍受我;

我的心和凯撒一起躺在棺材里，

我必须停下来，直到我想起来。

当他(多里安·格雷)想起海蒂·默顿时，他开始怀疑锁着的房间里的画像是否变了。肯定不像以前那么可怕了吧?也许，如果他的生活变得纯洁，他就能从脸上消除一切邪恶的激情。也许邪恶的迹象已经消失了。他要去看看。

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他静静地走了进去，按他的习惯随手锁上了门，拖走了挂在画像上的紫色饰物。他发出一声痛苦和愤怒的喊叫。他看不出有什么变化，只是眼睛里有狡诈的神情，嘴角上有伪君子的弯曲的皱纹。这东西仍然令人讨厌——如果可能的话，比以前更令人讨厌——沾在手上的猩红露珠似乎更亮了，更像刚洒出来的鲜血。然后他颤抖。难道仅仅是虚荣心使他做了一件好事吗?还是像亨利勋爵用嘲笑的笑声暗示的那样，渴望一种新的刺激?还是那种有时让我们把事情做得比自己更好的那种扮演角色的激情?或者，也许，所有这些?为什么红色的污渍比以前更大了呢? It seemed to have crept like a horrible disease over the wrinkled fingers. There was blood on the painted feet, as though the thing had dripped—blood even on the hand that had not held the knife. Confess? Did it mean that he was to confess? To give himself up and be put to death? He laughed. He felt that the idea was monstrous. Besides, even if he did confess, who would believe him? There was no trace of the murdered man anywhere. Everything belonging to him had been destroyed. He himself had burned what had been below-stairs. The world would simply say that he was mad. They would shut him up if he persisted in his story.... Yet it was his duty to confess, to suffer public shame, and to make public atonement. There was a God who called upon men to tell their sins to earth as well as to heaven. Nothing that he could do would cleanse him till he had told his own sin. His sin? He shrugged his shoulders. The death of Basil Hallward seemed very little to him. He was thinking of Hetty Merton. For it was an unjust mirror, this mirror of his soul that he was looking at. Vanity? Curiosity? Hypocrisy? Had there been nothing more in his renunciation than that? There had been something more. At least he thought so. But who could tell? ... No. There had been nothing more. Through vanity he had spared her. In hypocrisy he had worn the mask of goodness. For curiosity's sake he had tried the denial of self. He recognized that now.

这段话改编自奥斯卡·王尔德的多里安·格雷的画像(1891)