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Julius Caesar Friendship Quotes

How we cite our quotes: (Act.Scene.Line). Line numbers correspond to the Riverside edition.

Quote #10

BRUTUS
When I spoke that, I was ill-temper'd too.
CASSIUS
Do you confess so much? Give me your hand.
BRUTUS
And my heart too.
CASSIUS
                            O Brutus! (4.3.131-135)

After a heated argument that sounds more like a lovers' quarrel than a fight between friends, Brutus and Cassius finally kiss and make up, so to speak. 

Quote #11

ANTONY
This was the noblest Roman of them all.
All the conspirators save only he
Did that they did in envy of great Caesar.
He only in a general honest thought
And common good to all made one of them. (5.5.74-78)

These days, we tend not wage war against our friends and then stand over their dead bodies waxing poetic about how "noble" they were.  But in Julius Caesar, this kind of behavior is par for the course.