It is better to rule no one than to be another man's slave: without ruling, one can still live honourably; as a slave, no condition of life is possible at all.

Praestat enim nemini imperare quam alicui servire: sine illo enim vivere honeste licet, cum hoc vivendi nulla condicio est.

Marcus Junius Brutus

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Marcus Junius Brutus

Roman senator and Stoic (85-42 BC). Led the liberatores who stabbed Caesar on the Ides of March 44 BC; defeated at Philippi, he fell on his sword. Read as either republican martyr or archetypal traitor.

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