Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
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From William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 2. Responding to Calphurnia’s fears for his safety, Caesar contrasts repeated suffering through fear with facing death only when it arrives. Verified against the Folger Shakespeare Library’s text.