Marquis de Sade Quotes

I don’t care how honest a man is. If he is timid, he is no good.

I think no virtue goes with size;The reason of all cowardiceIs, that men are overgrown,And, to be valiant, must come downTo the titmouse dimension.

Humility is a virtue; timidity is an illness.

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

Fear could never make virtue.

The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.

I say you are a coward and you are; I think you hunt only to reassure yourself that you are not what you are: the weakest thing to ever walk the Earth. He will come for me and then we will be gone, and you will be helpless for all your hunting, because Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

Don't ever think compassion is weak. Compassion is about strength.

What is strength without a double share of wisdom?

One cannot run from a challenge without losing. To flee is signing a death warrant to dignity and character, and, having run, there is no return; one is a weakling forever. Meeting a challenge, though one may be defeated, gives strength, character, and a certain assurance that regardless of outcome, one will survive or go down fighting.

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.

Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.

It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.

There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.

Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.

For sheer strength of character, I wouldn't have dared to cross swords with Callas. I would rather have gone six rounds with Jack Dempsey.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.

Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave are always moral. Try to be moral, try to be brave, try to be sympathising.