Decius Brutus Defeat

Famous quotes containing the words brutus and/or defeat:

“But Brutus says he was ambitious,
And Brutus is an honorable man.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“A self-denial, no less austere than the saint’s, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)