"Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice."
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"Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice."
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"Humor is the most engaging cowardice."
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"We are all born cowards."
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"The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology."
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"Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it."
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"True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness."
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"There is always a philosophy for lack of courage."
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"Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind."
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"When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly."
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"Fortune never helps the fainthearted."
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"Hanging a noose on my door reeks of cowardice and fear on many, many levels."
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"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all."
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"Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!"
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"Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it."
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"Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace."
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"Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves."
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"Bullies are always cowards."
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"Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice."
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"Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous."
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