"It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking."
— Julius Caesar
It Is Not These Wellfed Longhaired
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
About this quote
Reported by Plutarch in his Life of Brutus (Chapter 8), where Caesar is said to have remarked that he did not fear the well-fed and elegantly dressed men around him, but rather "those pale and lean ones" — referring specifically to Brutus and Cassius. The anecdote is also cross-referenced in Plutarch's Life of Caesar. Shakespeare later made it famous in Julius Caesar (Act 1, Scene 2), where Caesar says of Cassius: "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look." Caesar was assassinated by Brutus, Cassius, and their allies on the Ides of March, 44 BC.
Source
Reported by Plutarch, on Brutus and Cassius
