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aut Caesar, aut nihil

[out kahy-sahr out ni-hil, awt see-zer awt nahy-hil]

Latin.
  1. either a Caesar or nothing; all or nothing.



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Aut Caesar, aut nihil�Caesar or nothing�was his unspoken motto.

Yriarte, mixing his facts throughout with a liberal leaven of fiction, tells us that "this is the precise moment in which Cesare Borgia, fixing his eyes upon the Roman Caesar, takes him definitely for his model and adopts the device 'Aut Caesar, aut nihil.'"

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The motto of a great actor should be aut Caesar aut nihil.

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