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Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)
You also, O son Brutus. [Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.]
For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men.
I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan.
As they spoke, the only thing I could think about was that scene from Julius Caesar where Brutus stabs him in the back. Et tu, Eric?
But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.
Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.
Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]
