Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness
So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.
Hanging a noose on my door reeks of cowardice and fear on many, many levels.
Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.
But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
Bullies are always cowards.
Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot.
My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!
I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!
I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.
You disappoint yourself more often by not doing things because of cowardice and temerity than you ever did by doing things that turn out to be wrong.
Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.
There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.
Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.
Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.
Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.
To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.