When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.