Listen to Shakespeare's titular character converse with Mark Antony about Cassius's loyalty
Julius Caesar muses to Mark Antony about Cassius, “Let me have men about me that...
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CAESAR: Antonius!
ANTONY: Caesar?
CAESAR: Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o'nights:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
ANTONY: Fear him not, Caesar; he's not dangerous;
He is a noble Roman, and well given.
CAESAR: Would he were fatter! But I fear him not:
ANTONY: Caesar?
CAESAR: Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o'nights:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
ANTONY: Fear him not, Caesar; he's not dangerous;
He is a noble Roman, and well given.
CAESAR: Would he were fatter! But I fear him not: