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I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.