Ides of March

The most challenging aspect of popular leadership is the certainty of developing opponents, even among your own people. Leaders evoke jealousy, skeptics, and political foes. 

Because of his great power and popularity, Julius Caesar unknowingly had many friends turn against him.

Should he have predicted this? Should he have been less trusting? Should he have taken measures to protect himself.

DECISION: Caesar was warned by an oracle, "Beware the Ides of March." Would you have taken the warning more seriously?