This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Valor has its limits like the other virtues, and these limits once transgressed, we find ourselves on the path of vice; so that we may pass through valor to temerity, obstinacy, and madness, unless we know its limits well - and they are truly hard to discern near the borderlines.
Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The worth and value of a man is in his heart and his will; there lies his real honor. Valor is the strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul.
Character | Heart | Honor | Man | Soul | Strength | Valor | Valor | Will | Worth | Value |
Richard Steele, fully Sir Richard Steele
The envious man is in pain upon all occasions which ought to give him pleasure. The relish of his life is inverted; and the objects which administer the highest satisfaction to those who are exempt from this passion give the quickest pangs to persons who are subject to it. All the perfections of their fellow creatures are odious. Youth, beauty, valor and wisdom are provocations of their displeasure. What a wretched and apostate state is this! to be offended with excellence, and to hate a man because we approve him!
Beauty | Character | Excellence | Hate | Life | Life | Man | Pain | Passion | Pleasure | Valor | Valor | Wisdom | Youth |
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave.
What we take for virtues is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry know how to arrange; and it is not always from valor and from chastity that men are valiant, an that women are chaste.
Chastity | Fortune | Industry | Men | Nothing | Valor | Valor |
How strangely high endeavors may be blessed, where piety and valor jointly go.
Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from enemies.
The better part of valor is discretion.
Better | Discretion | Valor | Valor |
Beaumont and Fletcher, Francis Beaumont (c.1585-1614) and John Fletcher
Discretion and hardy valor are the twins of honor, and, nursed together, make a conqueror; divided, but a talker.
Discretion | Honor | Valor | Valor |
Josh Billings, pen name for Henry Wheeler Shaw, aka Uncle Esek
True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.
Meister Eckhart, formally Meister von Hochheim
There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.
Miguel de Cervantes, fully Miguel de Cervantes Saaversa
True valor lies half way between cowardice and rashness.