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.
- Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 2, 1599.
Image: Valour and Cowardice by Alfred Stevens [1817-1876]