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know your outward favor.” When Cassius says this Brutus begins to reconsider his standing with Caesar and slowly is convinced that Caesar being dead is for the good of Rome. Incidentally, Brutus ends up at the conspirator’s house discussing how they are to kill Caesar. He makes many decisions here that hurt him later the first being that when Cassius wants them to take an oath of secrecy Brutus rejects that idea saying “What need we any spur but our own cause, to prick us to redress?” Artemidorus tries to give Caesar a list of the conspirators but Caesar fails to read it. The second mistake made at that house was the decision to not recruit Cecilia. He was a great speaker whose words could have swayed the crowd in the conspirators favor. Finally the last mistake made here was to not kill Antony. Brutus believes that "Antony is know your outward favor.” When Cassius says this Brutus begins to reconsider his standing with Caesar and slowly is convinced that Caesar being dead is for the good of Rome. …show more content…
He makes many decisions here that hurt him later the first being that when Cassius wants them to take an oath of secrecy Brutus rejects that idea saying “What need we any spur but our own cause, to prick us to redress?” Artemidorus tries to give Caesar a list of the conspirators but Caesar fails to read it. The second mistake made at that house was the decision to not recruit Cecilia. He was a great speaker whose words could have swayed the crowd in the conspirators favor. Finally the last mistake made here was to not kill Antony. Brutus believes that "Antony is know your outward favor.” When Cassius says this Brutus begins to reconsider his standing with Caesar and slowly is convinced that Caesar being dead is for the good of

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