From Brutus' reaction to Portia's death, we learn that Brutus is still practising the philosophy of Stoic.(The philosophy that teaches one to remain indifferent to the passions of pains and pleasures).Here we can recall the lines:
Cassius: Of your philosophy you make no use,
If you give place to accidental evils.
Brutus: No man bears sorrow better. Portia is dead.
After sharing the causes of Portia's death, Brutus declares to bury the dead and to attend to the business of the living which cleary points out that though he is "sick of many griefs", particularly that of Portia, yet he can bear fate patiently and stoically.
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