#coward

I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward. ↗

— Edith Piaf

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. ↗

— Plutarch

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There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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I'm a charming coward; I fight with words. ↗

— Carl Reiner

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It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. ↗

— Voltaire

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The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#coward #drunk #gets #goes #man

Fatigue makes cowards of us all. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

#fatigue #makes #us

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave. ↗

— Sallust

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The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all. ↗

— Anne Smedley

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