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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel Journal Intime (1882)

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Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.

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Knowledge, love, power,—there is the complete life.

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Liberty, equality — bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble becomes necessarily protection or kindness.

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The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.

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Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1599)

All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

Sanu Sharma

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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