When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

About Terence

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Publius Terentius Afer (; c. 195/185 – c. 159 BC), better known in English as Terence (), was a playwright during the Roman Republic. He was the author of six comedies based on Greek originals by Menander or Apollodorus of Carystus. All six of Terence's plays survive complete and were...

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I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.

Nothing is said that has not been said before.

A wise man's question contains half the answer.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

More quotations tagged with “courage”

The strongest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

—Mignon McLaughlin

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

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