"A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it."
Samuel Johnson in his Preface to Shakespeare alludes to the Bard's Antony and Cleopatra, and to Antony's content.
What love.
Update.
Just as I do not expect all real people to think, feel, and act as I would in like circumstances, I neither expect nor demand that of characters in a play.
Come to that, characters in any play are never so monotonous as to think, feel, and act always all alike.
On that point, Johnson is just silly.
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