General Discussion

From Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar:

BRUTUS Fates, we will know your pleasures: That we shall die, we know; 'tis but the time, and drawing days out, that men stand upon.

CASSIUS Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life cuts off so many years of fearing death.

BRUTUS Grant that, and then is death a benefit? So are we Caesar's friends, that have abridged his time of fearing death?