"Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues."
― Anatole France
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Courage
― Anatole France
More From Anatole France
- "History books that contain no lies are extremely dull."
- "You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving."
- "War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war."
More In Courage
- "Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared."― Eddie Rickenbacker
- "Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace."― George Santayana
- "Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring."― William Alexander