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Brave Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are…
- Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings…
- The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to…
- The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon…
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- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- I'm not funny. What I am is brave. — Lucille Ball
- You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave. — Clive Barker
- It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. — Georges Bernanos
- It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. — Aesop
- Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb,… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those… — Julie Burchill
- Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been. — Alan Alda
- No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected. — Julius Caesar