This extract is taken from the play "Julius Caesar". Caesar tell this to his wife when she is frightened by the the dream she had about Caesar's death and pleads that he stays at home and not go to...
"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,...
He means that cowards are "scared to death" each time they are in a frightening situation, and they may be in many frightening situations before they actually die. Brave people only die when they...