Why should he labour the point? If he has not fears, he has at least misgivings in regard to Cassius, that come very much to the same thing. His anxiety is obvious, as he calls Antony to his side to catechise him on his opinions of the danger.
In the same way he prides himself on his inaccessibility to adulation and blandishments.
These couchings and these lowly courtesies
Might fire the blood of ordinary men,
And turn pre-ordinance and first decree
Into the law of children. Be not fond
To think that Caesar bears such rebel blood,
That will be thaw’d from the true quality
With that which melteth fools; I mean, sweet words,
Low crooked court’sies and base spaniel fawning.