
“I’ll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.”
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
From In the Snowy Night Woods (10 March 1956)
“I’ll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.”
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.”
Attributed
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
Source: The reality of the Mass Media (2000), p. 1.
“The work we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.”
1830s, Boswell's Life of Johnson (1832)
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
Variant: True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.