![Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
[Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]](/assets/img/quote-photos/cassius-and-brutus-were-the-more-distinguished-for-that-very-circumstance-that-th.jpg)
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