“Xenophanes said, "I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing."”

—  Plutarch

Of Bashfulness
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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ancient Greek historian and philosopher 46–127

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