Strange, isn't it, how modern marketing practices have managed to invade our lives...right down to our sense of history? Like most people, I've heard this one all my life. Yet, seeing it written here, I can't help associating it with...

For My RIA Friends

The saddest of all of these lines. After the soothsayer had told him, Beware the Ides (15th) of March, some time before, Caesar went about his business on this day, which seemed like every other day. For his cabinet to conspire to kill him was not so surprising, their reasons were understandable. But for Caesar to look around, seeing his beloved friend, Brutus, participating, added just a final heartbreak to his murder. Even you, Brutus?

Given the Shakespearian context, I only wish that the quote had been: Proximo satis pro administratio. (Close enough for government work.) Think about it . . .

Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure.

So much said in so few words. And you, Brutus?...The essence of betrayal! Probably wasn't too much fun to be on the receiving end of that kind of backstabbing, but Caesar can take comfort in the fact that the darkest circle of Hell is reserved for two of his assassins.

Classic line and the best line :)

Classic!

The irony is perfect, this line (in Shakespeare's play) coming directly after Caesar speech of invincibility. Nothing can change him, at least until the back-stabbing hand of a friend makes the attempt.

Brutus was a turncoat from Caesars vanquished rival, Pompeii, it's hardly surprising that he betrayed Caesar too. Though Shakespeare fans know he got his comeuppance in the end...