Brutus

is representative of a lofty morality, an independence of the soul in that nothing can be too great a sacrifice, even the most glorious human being, the world's most glorious ornament, if that person threatens the freedom of great souls.

In praise of Shakespeare.- I could not say anything more beautiful in praise of Shakespeare as a human being than this: he believed in Brutus and did not cast one speck of suspicion upon this type of virtue. It was to him that he devoted his best tragedy - it is still called by the wrong name - to him and to the most awesome quintessence of a lofty morality, Independence of the soul! - that is at stake here. No sacrifice can be too great for that: one must be capable of sacrificing one's dearest friend for it, even if he should also be the most glorious human being, an ornament of the world. a genius without peer - if one loves freedom as the freedom of great souls and he threatens this kind of freedom. That is what Shakespeare must have felt. The height at which he places Caesar is the finest honor that he could bestow on Brutus: that is how be raises beyond measure Brutus's inner problem as well as the spiritual strength that was able to cut this knot. Could it really have been political freedom that led this poet to sympathize with Brutus-and turned him into Brutus's accomplice'

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