QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON VALOR

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, poet)

There is always safety in valor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

Georg Hegel (1770-1831, German philosopher)

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

Plutarch (46-120, Greek essayist, biographer)

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

Bernard Joseph Saurin (1706-1781, French dramatist)

When valor preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-117, Roman historian)

Go on and increase in valor, boy, for this is the path to immortality.

Virgil (c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman poet)

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