Contempt Quote by Tacitus Download Open image “Valor is the contempt of death and pain.” — Tacitus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contempt Death Pain Valor
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave… — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
“Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth; and his alert acceptance of it, from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Valor was in Nikodemos, unquestionable, and commitment like trees to stand or night to fall. — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict. — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them. — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Somebody once told me that if you laugh at a George Bush joke, or you send an email cartoon to your friends that makes… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled… — Mark the Evangelist Copy Share Image
Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
Every person of any rank in the left, from voter on up to cabinet member to elected official in the Democrat Party, has contempt.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image