--- title: "7 Brave man Quotes By Aristotle" description: "7 Brave man quotes by Aristotle. Plus more from Aristotle and more Brave man sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb7/aristotle-78_adventure_when-their-adventures-do-not-succeed-how_371601.png" --- > [When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/when-their-adventures-do-not-succeed-however-they-run-away-but-it-was/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb7/aristotle-78_adventure_when-their-adventures-do-not-succeed-how_371601.png) > [A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/a-brave-man-is-clear-in-his-discourse-and-keeps-close-to-truth/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/737/aristotle-78_brave_a-brave-man-is-clear-in-his-discourse-an_1829848.png) > [To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/to-die-and-thus-avoid-poverty-or-love-or-anything-painful-is-not-the/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f64/aristotle-78_brave_to-die-and-thus-avoid-poverty-or-love-or_2169872.png) > [The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-coward-calls-the-brave-man-rash-the-rash-man-calls-him-a-coward/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b06/aristotle-78_brave_the-coward-calls-the-brave-man-rash-the_2339271.png) > [To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/to-die-in-order-to-avoid-the-pains-of-poverty-love-or-anything-that/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01c/aristotle-78_brave_to-die-in-order-to-avoid-the-pains-of-po_2370976.png) > [The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-brave-man-if-he-be-compared-with-the-coward-seems-foolhardy-and/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21f/aristotle-78_brave_the-brave-man-if-he-be-compared-with-the_3097013.png) > [The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-truly-good-and-wise-man-will-bear-all-kinds-of-fortune-in-a/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1c/aristotle-78_accidents_the-truly-good-and-wise-man-will-bear-al_3145262.png) ## Other authors on Brave man ## More by Aristotle > [The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-knowledge-of-the-soul-admittedly-contributes-greatly-to-the/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/young-men-have-strong-passions-and-tend-to-gratify-them/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-body-is-at-its-best-between-the-ages-of-thirty-and-thirty-five/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-ensouled-is-distinguished-from-the-unsouled-by-its-being-alive/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/although-it-may-be-difficult-in-theory-to-know-what-is-just-and-equal/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-true-forms-of-government-therefore-are-those-in-which-the-one-or/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [All men by nature desire to know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/all-men-by-nature-desire-to-know/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/all-persons-ought-to-endeavor-to-follow-what-is-right-and-not-what-is/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/give-a-man-a-fish-you-feed-him-for-a-day-give-a-man-a-poisoned-fish/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-man-who-confers-a-favour-would-rather-not-be-repaid-in-the-same/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [The mother of revolution and crime is poverty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-mother-of-revolution-and-crime-is-poverty/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/obstinate-people-can-be-divided-into-the-opinionated-the-ignorant-and/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/happiness-does-not-consist-in-pastimes-and-amusements-but-in-virtuous/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/to-learn-is-a-natural-pleasure-not-confined-to-philosophers-but/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/every-virtue-is-a-mean-between-two-extremes-each-of-which-is-a-vice/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brave-man/aristotle/#itemlist", "name": "7 Brave man Quotes By Aristotle", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; 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