“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

What does it mean?

A coward suffers again and again by imagining every danger. A brave person only meets death when it really comes, so they live more freely.

Key vocabulary

Cowards

people who are not brave

valiant

brave (literary)

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