No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.
Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.
No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.
The appetite is sharpened by the first bites.
To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness!
Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.