"Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol."
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"The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic."
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"In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying."
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"There are heroes in evil as well as in good."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side."
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"Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly towards an object, and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them,--that it was a vain endeavor?"
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"I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!"
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"Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany."
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"Heroism is a matter of integrity--beco ming more and more at each step ourselves."
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"The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism."
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"The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic."
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"I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today."
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"Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man."
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"Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism."
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"Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called."
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"Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death."
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"Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism."
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"The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism"
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"War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly."
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