laeta viro gravitas ac mentis amabile pondus et sine tristitia virtus: non ille rigoris ingratas laudes nec nubem frontis amabat nec famam laevo quaerebat limite vitae.
Though dignified, Brutus was genial; his powerful intellect won mens hearts, and there was nothing forbidding in his virtue. To wear a frowning brow, or win a thankless reputation for severity, was not his way: nor did he court notoriety by a perverse course of life.
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