‘There is a Tide in the Affairs of Men’

Brutus points out that while their own forces are at their peak, and can only weaken, Octavius and Antony are getting stronger. So this, he tells Cassius, is one of those times when an opportunity must be grasped with both hands, because it will never come again, and all that will be left is bitter regret.

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