Quotes
Sometimes the spark of generous fire
Revives in vanquished hearts again.
Blessings on your young courage, boy; that's the way to the stars.
Fortune favors the bold.
Every man's last day is fixed.
Lifetimes are brief and not to be regained,
For all mankind. But by their deeds to make
Their fame last: that is labor for the brave.
Now, Aeneas, is the hour for courage, now for a dauntless heart!
Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them.
You speak now like a brave man and an honest man. Courage does not fear crime, and honesty does not fear authority.
p. 652
There is nothing more harmful to the success of an endeavor than timidity, pusilanimity, and doubt. This type of cowardice that I believe only the lazy possess. I do not believe anything to be impossible; nor am I amazed by any invention or discovery, which is why I do not find any idea utopian. What is essential is that the idea be put into practice. Begin! The rest is weakness and an erroneous concept of human power. Wanting is doing!
Ignorance produces rashness, reflection timidity
Look with favor upon a bold beginning.
Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
