The Good Book_ A Secular Bible - A. C. Grayling [211]
6. The test of courage is bearing defeat without losing heart.
7. Where the brave man is, is the thickest of the battle.
8. Courage does more than rage can.
9. You cannot know your courage until you have tasted danger.
10. All are brave when the enemy flies.
11. They need heels who have no heart.
12. Courage in danger is half the battle.
13. Courage champions right.
14. True courage grapples misfortune.
15. It is the courage, not the weapon, that wins.
16. There is always safety in valour.
Chapter 40: Courtesy
1. All doors open to courtesy.
2. Courtesy costs nothing.
3. Courtesy unanswered does not last long.
4. Do not limp before the lame.
5. The courteous learn their courtesy from the discourteous.
Chapter 41: Cowardice
1. To see what is right and not do it, is cowardice.
2. A coward’s fear can make a coward valiant.
3. Cowards are cruel.
4. Cowards die many deaths.
5. Cowards in scarlet pass for men of war.
6. Cowards show no mercy.
7. Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
8. There grows no herb to heal a coward’s heart.
9. Better be a coward than a fool.
10. One coward makes ten.
11. The coward makes threats only when he is safe.
12. Strength is no use to the coward.
13. Who cannot strike the ass may strike the saddle.
14. Cowards call themselves cautious, misers call themselves thrifty.
Chapter 42: Credit
1. Better take eight than sell for ten on credit.
2. They who have lost their credit are dead to the world.
3. They pay severely who require credit.
4. No man ever lost credit but he who had none to begin with.
5. The poor have no credit.
6. Who loses credit has nothing else to lose.
Chapter 43: Crime
1. Crimes may be secret, but are never secure.
2. They act the third crime who defend the first.
3. They who do what they should not, will feel what they would not.
4. The contagion of crime is like the plague.
5. We easily forget crimes known only to ourselves.
6. One may thrive on crime, but not for long.
7. Crime needs crime to conceal it.
8. To share your friend’s crime is to make it your own.
9. No crime is founded on reason.
10. Criminals are punished to amend others.
11. No one lives who is without a crime.
12. Successful crime is called virtue.
13. Who is content with one crime only?
14. Who profits from a crime commits the crime.
Chapter 44: Custom
1. Custom is the plague of the wise and the idol of fools.
2. Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the grave.
3. Custom reconciles us to everything.
4. Tyrant custom makes a slave of reason.
5. A cake and a bad custom ought to be broken.
6. Custom is a deceiving schoolteacher.
7. So many countries, so many customs.
8. A good custom is surer than law.
9. Choose the best; custom will make it easy.
10. We care more about what is done against custom than against nature.
Chapter 45: Danger
1. Who loves danger will perish by it.
2. As soon as there is life there is danger.
3. Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
4. Danger is next neighbour to security.
5. Danger is the best remedy for danger.
6. Danger is the spur of great minds.
7. Danger will wink at opportunity.
8. Dangers bring fears, fears bring more dangers.
9. Dangers foreseen are soonest prevented.
10. Who fears danger in time seldom feels it.
11. They that would sail without danger will never go to sea.
12. If the danger seems slight, time to beware.
13. There is no one who is not dangerous to someone.
14. No danger, no glory.
15. Danger comes the sooner when despised.
16. They are happy whom others’ perils make wary.
17. Who dares dangers overcomes them before incurring them.
18. The danger that is nearest we least dread.
19. Without danger the game is cold.
20. Fear the goat from the front, the horse from behind, and human beings all round.
21. One who would scratch a bear must have iron nails.
Chapter 46: Death
1. Few have luck, all have death.
2. The dead feel no cold.
3. The deathbed reveals the heart.
4. The dying can do nothing easy.
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