“Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.”
Can be translated to mean that someone who is afraid of something, metaphorically dies because they were afraid to try and attempt it, before they even literally die.
Honestly, I can’t see how it applies to our play. Because none of them really acted as cowards, everyone followed through with killing off Caesar, and everyone’s falling through in the battle towards the end of the play.
“I came, I saw, I conquered.”
This can be translated to: “When I arrived, I saw what I wanted and I took it.”
It applies to the play, because Caesar arrived in Rome, and he liked what he saw, so he decided to claim it as his.
“Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.”
I can’t even translate this, it’s perfect the way it is. It means that any person, if they believe in something strongly enough, will believe it.
Brutus wanted to believe that Caesar was an ambitious man, so he had a valid reason to kill him. That’s it.
“Experience is the teacher of all things.”
I still don’t need to translate it. Pretty much, you learn from experience. If you don’t do something or try something, you’ll never know the outcome of it.
I don’t know how it would apply to the play. I guess Brutus wasn’t gonna know the outcome of killing Caesar, had he not done it?
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