"Majesty: when a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty."
— Duty

January 1, 1970

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George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra, act III, in Selected Plays with Prefaces, vol. 3, p. 418 (1948). Apollodorus is speaking to Cleopatra.