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Have courage to use your own reason!



Have courage to use your own reason!

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.






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






Courage in the path is what makes the path manifest itself.






The courage of Truth, the belief in the power of the spirit, is the first condition of philosophical study.






Courage is found in unlikely places.






There is no happiness without courage, nor virtue without struggle.






It is better to trust in ability than in luck.






Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.






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






When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.






Every man of courage is a man of his word.






The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.






Trust is courage, loyalty is strength.






Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.






Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.






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






Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.






Nothing is as valuable to a man as courage.






Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.






A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.






Take courage from this despair.
Seneca / 






As we get older, we realise that the rarest courage is that of thinking.






No one can answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.






A scholar must be strong and resolute, for his burden is heavy, and his journey is long.






The assaults of adversity do not weaken the spirit of a brave man. It always maintains its poise, and it gives its own colour to everything that happens.






Blessings on your young courage, boy; that's the way to the stars.






Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.






Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.






The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.






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