“The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.”
Léon Blum (1872–1950) French politician
“To his friends he said that he thought the man who feared gibes and jeers was more of a coward than the one who ran away from the enemy.”
Moralia: Sayings of Kings and Commanders, Plutarch; English translation by Frank Cole Babbitt
Variant translation by Goodwin:
He that is afraid of scoffs and reproaches is more a coward than he that flies from the enemy.
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