re: Why is Julius Caesar looked upon so fondly by history?

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. We come to bury Caesar not to praise him. The evil that men do live after them, the good is oft interred with their bones.So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus-- Am I the only one with this speech embedded in my mind. I am 60 and can still recite most of it. That is what school does to a person when you are forced to remember something.