I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older. – Michel de Montaigne, translated Category: Boldness
It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent. – Machiavelli Category: Boldness
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. – Francis Bacon Category: Boldness
Put a grain of boldness into everything you do. – Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish Category: Boldness
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? – W. E. B. Du Bois Category: power
Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one. – William Menninger Category: Psychology
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. – Tiberius Caesar Category: Taxation