What is the best summary of this monologue? Caesar says that he will eventually release Cimber from exile because “men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive,” and he thinks that all men deserve forgiveness.
Caesar explains that we are all flesh and blood and also apprehensive. He does not know any man who cannot be moved by reason, except for one person: himself.
Caesar refuses to reverse Cimber’s banishment. He says that, although the world is full of reasonable men, he is the only one who stands firm, and he will stick by his sentence to prove it.
Caesar explains that the world is full of men who are flesh and blood. They are capable of letting reason change their minds, but he knows only one man who will not change his mind. That is Caesar himself. He says that nothing will shake him, and he will keep Cimber in exile just to show the people how constant and unshakable he is.