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• A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the… — Pietro Aretino
• To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,… — Aristotle
• Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with… — Jean Baudrillard
• Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. — Christian Nestell Bovee
• Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. — Miguel de Cervantes
• At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
• Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. — Mahatma Gandhi
• The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we… — Chogyam Trungpa
• You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture;… — Sun Tzu
• The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice. — Charles Lamb

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