“Your councils be long, your doings be slow, consider the end.”

— Marcus Junius Brutus

As quoted in "Marcus Brutus" in Lives by Plutarch, as translated by John Dryden

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Roman politician -85–-42 BC

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“Your councils be long, your doings be slow, consider the end.”

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