Watch William Shakespeare's eponymous protagonist dismiss Calpurnia's cautions in Julius Caesar
Caesar rejects Calpurnia's cautionary pleas with the words “What can be avoided whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?” from Act II, scene 2, of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
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Transcript
CAESAR: What can be avoided
Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?
Yet Caesar shall go forth; for these predictions
Are to the world in general as to Caesar.
CALPURNIA: When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
CAESAR: Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?
Yet Caesar shall go forth; for these predictions
Are to the world in general as to Caesar.
CALPURNIA: When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
CAESAR: Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
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