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Pierre Corneille
Brave men are brave from the very first
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Gilbert Chesterton
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die
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Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy
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Winston Churchill
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen
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Winston Churchill
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others
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Lao-Tze
Because of a great love, one is courageous
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Blaise Pascal
Brave deeds are wasted when hidden
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Plato
Courage is knowing what not to fear
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Plato
Courage is a kind of salvation
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Napoleon Bonaparte
With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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