A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

About Euripides

Portrait of Euripides

Euripides (; Ancient Greek: Eὐριπίδης, romanized: Eurīpídēs, pronounced [eu̯.riː.pí.dɛːs]; c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three authors of Greek tragedy whose name is ascribed to surviving plays. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays...

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There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscience.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Your very silence shows you agree.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

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Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change

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Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

—Eddie Rickenbacker

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

—Dorothy Bernard

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

—Corra Harris

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

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11 Jul 2015 Added