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Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice. - Agesilaus, the Great The Spartans do not inquire how many the enemy are, but where they are. - Agis II Glorious men are the scorn of wise men, the admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts. - Francis Bacon It is said of untrue valor that some men's valors are in the eyes of them that look on. - Francis Bacon Let me die facing the enemy. - Chevalier Pierre du Terrail Bayard Discretion, the best part of valor. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher It is a brave act of valor to contemn death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. - Sir Thomas Browne But where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live. - Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici (pt. XLIV) The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty. - Pierre Corneille The fight of Balaklava--that was a feat of chivalry, fiery with consummate courage and bright with flashing valor. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield How strangely high endeavors may be blessed, where piety and valor jointly go. - John Dryden Those who believe that the praises which arise from valor are superior to those which proceed from any other virtues have not considered. - John Dryden There is always safety in valor. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits--The Times Valor consists in the power of self-recovery. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays--Circles I love the man that is modestly valiant; that stirs not till he most needs, and then to purpose. A continued patience I commend not. - Owen Felltham (Feltham) A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion. - George Herbert A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t' his other virtues, They're all unseason'd without it. - Ben Jonson, New Inn (act IV, sc. 3) No man can answer for his own valor or courage till he has been in danger. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Perfect valor is to do unwitnessed what we should be capable of doing before all the world. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld The love of glory, the fear of shame, the design of making a fortune, the desire of rendering life easy and agreeable, and the humor of pulling down other people, are often the causes of that valor so celebrated among men. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld He was spurred on by rival valor. [Lat., Stimulos dedit aemula virtus.] - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan), Pharsalia (I, 120) In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land. - John Milton, Sonnet--To the Lord General Fairfax Valor is stability, not of arms and of legs, but of courage and the soul. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from enemies. - Plutarch Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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