Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen. – Epictetus

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A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. – Thomas Jefferson

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination. – Jeremy Collier

My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving dear ones unprotected. Between violence and cowardly flight, I can only prefer violence to cowardice. I can no more preach nonviolence to a coward than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes. – Mahatma Gandhi

The coward threatens when he is safe. – Johann von Goethe

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