As to myself, I think that my condition even now is better than that of my enemies; for though I die, posterity will do me justice, and I shall enjoy forever the honor which virtue and integrity deserve; while they, though they live, live only to reap the bitter fruits of injustice and of tyranny.
"After I am gone," he continued, addressing his friends, as before, "think no longer of me, but take care of yourselves.

Antony, I am sure, will be satisfied with Cassius's death and mine.

He will not be disposed to pursue you vindictively any longer.

Make peace with him on the best terms that you can." Brutus then asked first one and then another of his friends to aid him in the last duty, as he seems to have considered it, of destroying his life; but one after another declared that they could not do any thing to assist him in carrying into effect so dreadful a determination.

Finally, he took with him an old and long-tried friend named Strato, and went away a little, apart from the rest.