A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
A just and a brave man acts fearlessly and with explicitness; he does not shun, but court, the scrutiny of mankind; he lives in the face of day, and the whole world confesses the clearness of his spirit and the rectitude of his conduct.
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.