Plautus Quotes

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Only the young die good.

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

For months people have been begging me to come here for this Kamikaze operation. We will die well. The fact that we are taking a role in a great moment is history is a great honor.

There's nothing noble about dying. Not even if you die for honor. Not even if you die the greatest hero the world ever saw. Not even if you're so great your name will never be forgotten and who's that great? The most important thing is your life, little guys. You're worth nothing dead except for speeches. There's nothing noble about dying. Not even if you die for honor. Not even if you die the greatest hero the world ever saw. Not even if you're so great your name will never be forgotten and who's that great? The most important thing is your life, little guys. You're worth nothing dead except for speeches.

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

In some crazy sort of way, if I died helping a teammate or a friend or someone that I love, I think I could live with it. My family probably couldn't, but I think I could.

We manifest character when self-sacrifice for the sake of our principles becomes more important than compromise for the sake of popularity.

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.