Quote #3329 About Courage By Aristotle

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

Quotes You Might Also Like

More quotes by Aristotle

The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with...

– Aristotle

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

– Aristotle

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

– Aristotle

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

– Aristotle

[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue]...

– Aristotle

View all quotes by Aristotle

Random Quotes

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

– Aristotle

"He who would travel happy must travel lite."

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"I get worried for young girls sometimes; I want them to feel that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and smart and independent, and not so...

– Amy Poehler