You are like the eels of Melun; you cry out before you are
skinned.
[Fr., Vous semblez les read more

You are like the eels of Melun; you cry out before you are
skinned.
[Fr., Vous semblez les anguilles de Melun; vous criez devant
qu'on vous esorche.]

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies

One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start read more

The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start from the slightest pain or equal foe.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to read more

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.

Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.

Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was
afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was
afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
[Lat., Ignavissimus quisque, et ut res docuit, in periculo non
ausurus, nimis verbis et lingua feroces.]