“They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.”

He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.

Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.

You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.

Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.

It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.

Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.

I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.

Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man’s eyes.

Our ability to live a life of love and meaning, to make the world a braver and kinder place.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won’t fail forever.

The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.

If you’re looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.

Every man’s last day is fixed. Lifetimes are brief, and not to be regained, for all mankind. But by their deeds to make their fame last: that is labor for the brave.