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[[File:Virgil mosaic in the Bardo National Museum (Tunis) (12241228546).jpg|thumb| Fortune favours the daring. ~ [[Virgil]]]]
'''[[w:Bravery|Bravery]]''' is strength in the face of fear. It is similar to [[courage]].
== Quotes ==
* I'll say this for the Queen. She was brave—or possibly stupid. It's easy to mistake the two.
** [[Ben Aaronovitch]], ''[[w:Foxglove Summer|Foxglove Summer]]'' (2014), Chapter 16
* A brave man is one who admits his fear. Only a fool believes himself invincible.
** [[Robert Asprin]] & Linda Evans, ''[[w:Robert Asprin|Ripping Time]]'' (2000), Chapter 10
* '''All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.'''
** [[Edward Bulwer-Lytton]], ''King Arthur'' (1848-9), Book XII, Chapter XXVIII.
* Brave men were living before Agamemnon.
** [[Lord Byron]], ''[[Don Juan (Byron)|Don Juan]]'' (1818-24), Canto I, Stanza 5.
* The truly brave,<br>When they behold the brave oppressed with odds,<br>Are touched with a desire to shield and save:—<br>
** [[Lord Byron]], ''[[Don Juan (Byron)|Don Juan]]'' (1818-24), Canto VIII, Stanza 106.
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** No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.
** [[Cicero]], ''De Officiis'' (44 B.C.), I. 2.
* It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave.
** [[Dinah Craik]], ''A Woman's Thoughts About Women'' (1858), Ch. 11.
* '''Fortem Posce Animum'''<br>Pray for God to give you a Brave Soul
** Crampton Family Motto (1248)
* The god-like hero sate<br>On his imperial throne:<br>His valiant peers were placed around,<br>Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound<br>(So should desert in arms be crowned).<br>The lovely Thais, by his side,<br>Sate like a blooming Eastern bride<br>In flower of youth and beauty's pride.<br>Happy, happy, happy pair!<br>None but the brave,<br>None but the brave,<br>None but the brave deserve the fair.
** [[John Dryden]], ''Alexander's Feast'' (1697), Stanza 1.
* ''Quocirca vivite fortes, fortiaque adversis opponite pectora rebus''
** So live, my boys, as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
** [[Horace]], Book II, Satire II, Line 135-136 (trans. E. C. Wickham)
*Some of the bravest political work in this country and around the world has happened because people often too young to grasp their own mortality stick their necks out. The job of the rest of us is to rise to the occasion of their bravery. The young inspire the middle-aged and old with courage, and they project our vision where it belongs, into the [[future]].
**[[Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz]] “Nine Suggestions For Radicals, or Lessons From the Gulf War” in The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
* Rewa was brave. At least, she was thick-witted enough to be able to ignore personal danger to a great extent.
** [[Tanith Lee]], ''[[w:Tanith Lee|East of Midnight]]'' (1977), Chapter 12
* There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck!<br>A man who's not afraid to say his say,<br>Though a whole town's against him.
** [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], ''Christus'' (1872), Part III. John Endicott, Act II, scene 2.
* ''Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam;<br>Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.''
** In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
** [[Martial]], ''Epigrams'' (c. 80-104 AD), XI. 56. 15.
* — How can a man be brave when he's afraid ?<br>— It is the only time a man can be brave.
** George R. R. Martin, ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire#A Game of Thrones|A Game of Thrones]]'', Chapter Bran (I).
* Arya watched them die and said nothing. What good did it do you to be brave? ... There were no brave people on that march, only scared and hungry ones.
** George R. R. Martin, ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire#A Clash of Kings|A Clash of Kings]]'', Chapter Arya (VI)
* 'Tis more brave<br>To live, than to die.
** [[Owen Meredith]] (Lord Lytton), ''Lucile'' (1860), Part II, Canto VI, Stanza 11.
* I'm not a brave man. My self-image is of a very small and weak person. In point of fact, I'm almost six feet, and solidly built. But I was a late bloomer. I spent those formative early high-school years as a pudgy little [[science]] whimp. I'm still scared of big men with deep voices.
** [[Rudy Rucker]], ''The Sex Sphere'', p. 13.
* Come one, come all! this rock shall fly<br>From its firm base as soon as I.
** [[Walter Scott]], ''Lady of the Lake'' (1810), Canto V, Stanza 10.
* He did look far<br>Into the service of the time, and was<br>Discipled of the bravest; he lasted long;<br>But on us both did haggish age steal on<br>And wore us out of act.
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[All's Well That Ends Well]]'' (1600s), Act I, scene 2, line 26.
* What's brave, what's noble,<br>Let's do it after the high Roman fashion,<br>And make death proud to take us.
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Antony and Cleopatra]]'' (1600s), Act IV, scene 15, line 86.
* ''Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignores ad desperationem formidine properare.''
** The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone.
** [[Tacitus]], ''Annales'' (AD 117), II. 46.
* In the ebb and flow of battle there are usually only brief flashes of bravery before the brave become the dead.
** [[Tade Thompson]], ''One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sunlight'' in ''Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond'' (2013), <small> {{ISBN|978-0-9891411-4-7}}, </small> pp. 237-238
*Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.
**[[Harry Truman]], as quoted in [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Truman/8fp1A2s6aQwC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Brave+men+don%27t+belong+to+any+one+country.+I+respect+bravery+wherever+I+see+it&pg=PA646&printsec=frontcover ''Truman''] (1993), by David McCullough, p. 646
===''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations''===
:<small>Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), pp. 82-83.</small>
* ''Zwar der Tapfere nennt sich Herr der Länder<br>Durch sein Eisen, durch sein Blut.''
** The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.
** [[w:Ernst Moritz Arndt|Ernst Moritz Arndt]], ''Lehre an den Menschen'', 5.
* ''Hoch klingt das Lied vom braven Mann,<br>Wie Orgelton und Glockenklang;<br>Wer hohes Muths sich rühmen kann<br>Den lohnt nicht Gold, den lohnt Gesang.''
** Song of the brave, how thrills thy tone<br> As when the Organ's music rolls;<br> No gold rewards, but song alone,<br> The deeds of great and noble souls.
** [[w:Gottfried August Bürger|G. A. Bürger]], ''Lied von Braven Mann''.
* How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,<br>By all their country's wishes blest!
** [[William Collins]], ''Ode'' written in 1746. Authorship disputed. Found in the Oratorio, Alfred the Great, altered from Alfred, a Masque, presented Aug. 1, 1740. Written by Thompson and Mallet.
* ''Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.''
** Brave men are brave from the very first.
** [[Pierre Corneille]], ''Le Cid'', II. 3.
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* The brave man seeks not popular applause,<br>Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause;<br>Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can,<br>Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.
** [[John Dryden]], ''Palamon and Arcite'', Book III, line 2,015. (1700)
* Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe:<br>They took the spear, but left the shield.
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* Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,<br>And asks no omen but his country's cause.
** [[Homer]], ''{{w|The Iliad}}'', Book XII, line 283. [[Alexander Pope]]'s [[w:The Iliad of Homer (Alexander Pope)|translation]].
* O friends, be men; so act that none may feel<br>Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men.<br>Think each one of his children and his wife,<br>His home, his parents, living yet or dead.<br>For them, the absent ones, I supplicate,<br>And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.
** [[Homer]], ''The Iliad'', Book XV, line 843. Bryant's translation.
* ''Ardentem frigidus Ætnam insiluit.''
** In cold blood he leapt into burning Etna.
** [[Horace]], ''Ars Poetica''.
* ''Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona''<br>''Multi; sed omnes illacrimabiles''<br>
** Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).
** [[Horace]], ''Odes'', Book IV, IX. 25.
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* True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
** [[La Rochefoucauld]], ''Maxims'', 216.
* How well Horatius kept the bridge<br>In the brave days of old.
** [[Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay]], ''Lays of Ancient Rome'', ''Horatius'', 70.
* ''Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.''
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** God helps the brave.
** [[Friedrich Schiller]], ''Wilhelm Tell'', I. 2. 132.
* ''Fortes fortuna adjuvat.''
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** Fortune favours the daring.
** [[Virgil]], ''[[w:Aeneid|Æneid]]'' (29-19 BC), X, 284 and 458. Same phrase or idea found in [[Cicero]], ''De Finibus'', III. 4. and Tusc., II. 4. [[Claudian]], ''Ad Probin''. XLIII. 9. [[Ennius]], ''Annales'', V. 262. [[Livy]], Book IV. 37;, Book VII. 29;, Book XXXIV. 37. [[Menander]], ''In Stobæus Flor.'', VII, p. 206. Ed. 1709. [[Ovid]], ''Metamorphoses''. X. 11. 27. [[Pliny the Younger]], ''Epistles'', VI. 16. [[Tacitus]], ''Annales'', IV. 17.
**[[Ur.lizz]]** ~ Fearless
==See also==
*[[Courage]]
*[[Valor]]
==External links==
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