Marcus Junius Brutus

assassin of Julius Caesar
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Marcus Junius Brutus Caepio (85 BC – 42 BC), or simply Brutus, was a Roman senator of the late Roman Republic. He was one of Julius Caesar's assassins.

Your councils be long, your doings be slow, consider the end.

Quotes

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  • The Xanthians, suspecting my kindness, have made their country the grave of their despair; the Patareans, trusting themselves to me, enjoy in all points their former liberty; it is in your power to choose the judgment of the Patareans or the fortune of the Xanthians.
  • Your councils be long, your doings be slow, consider the end.
  • Yes, indeed, we must fly, but not with our feet, but with our hands..
    • As quoted in "Marcus Brutus" in Lives by Plutarch, as translated by John Dryden. Said supporting suicide to escape when someone said they had to escape.

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  • Farewell, good Strato. — Caesar now be still: I kill'd not thee with half so good a will.
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