Here are a couple of inspiring lines from William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, with some commentary.
[Poem: Cowards die many times before their deaths](http://sathyaish.net/poetry/CowardsDieManyTimes.aspx)
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Dr. Prafulla K Acharya, Ph.D. in HRD & Mgt (IIT-Kgp), Retired Director NPC India
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I enjoyed the quotation from Julius Caesar, which I read in my BA (Hons) course during the late sixties. Timeless dramas such as Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet should be encouraged for young boys and girls to read, instead of spending too much time on the internet or social media platforms.
From India, Bhubaneswar
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Email: pka2001uk@yahoo.co.uk and pka1942@gmail.com
Cell: +919437022040
I enjoyed the quotation from Julius Caesar, which I read in my BA (Hons) course during the late sixties. Timeless dramas such as Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet should be encouraged for young boys and girls to read, instead of spending too much time on the internet or social media platforms.
From India, Bhubaneswar
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I second your sentiment, Mr. Acharya. Same here. That is why I am reviving old works and pointing out the gems in them. I'll keep doing it, and people will start to realize the depths these works have.
From India, Ghaziabad
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Hello Mr Sathyaish,
Just now I located your posting made last year on Julius Caesar.
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.
Great verses with excellent depth.
The poet initially speaks of bravery and salute the brave who die only once.
Then he brings home the point on the fear of death, the inevitable.
In classical English, when someone had to make a comparison with certainty of any event,
the popular phrase used was AS SURE AS DEATH. Hardly seen these days.
Our great epic Mahabarata has many small anecdotes rolled into its fold.
These are brought out by erudite scholars, when they give the commentary on the epic.
YAKSHA PRASHAN is one such episode.
As the story goes Yama tests Yudhishtir’s adherence to Dharma.
In the plot described Yudhishtir is horrified to find all his brothers dead near a pond.
An Oracle (Yama) stops him saying that he could drink the water only after answering his questions.
Yudhishtir agrees and what follows is a dialogue par excellence.
One of the questions asked is “What is the biggest wonder in this world?’
Yudishtir answers that the biggest wonder is about people believing and behaving
as if death is only for others and nothing do with them.
Indeed death is a wonder and makes many people think differently about it.
I would also like to share with the readers Mahatma Gandhi’s last letter.
The text of the letter can be found in a museum at Baroda.
It is written by Gandhiji to a friend in Madras ( now Chennai).
He is trying to console his friend who had lost someone close to him.
If I remember the line correctly “ Death is close friend of ours whom many of us forget”.
What an irony it is to be found in his last letter, a few days before he fell to an assassin.
V.Raghunathan………………………………………………………………Navi Mumbai
From India
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Just now I located your posting made last year on Julius Caesar.
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.
Great verses with excellent depth.
The poet initially speaks of bravery and salute the brave who die only once.
Then he brings home the point on the fear of death, the inevitable.
In classical English, when someone had to make a comparison with certainty of any event,
the popular phrase used was AS SURE AS DEATH. Hardly seen these days.
Our great epic Mahabarata has many small anecdotes rolled into its fold.
These are brought out by erudite scholars, when they give the commentary on the epic.
YAKSHA PRASHAN is one such episode.
As the story goes Yama tests Yudhishtir’s adherence to Dharma.
In the plot described Yudhishtir is horrified to find all his brothers dead near a pond.
An Oracle (Yama) stops him saying that he could drink the water only after answering his questions.
Yudhishtir agrees and what follows is a dialogue par excellence.
One of the questions asked is “What is the biggest wonder in this world?’
Yudishtir answers that the biggest wonder is about people believing and behaving
as if death is only for others and nothing do with them.
Indeed death is a wonder and makes many people think differently about it.
I would also like to share with the readers Mahatma Gandhi’s last letter.
The text of the letter can be found in a museum at Baroda.
It is written by Gandhiji to a friend in Madras ( now Chennai).
He is trying to console his friend who had lost someone close to him.
If I remember the line correctly “ Death is close friend of ours whom many of us forget”.
What an irony it is to be found in his last letter, a few days before he fell to an assassin.
V.Raghunathan………………………………………………………………Navi Mumbai
From India
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