Courage vs. fear

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Courage is as contagious as fear.

Susan Sontag

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Topic

Courage vs. fear Courage Fear

Speaker

Susan Sontag

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Sontag, Susan. "Of Courage and Resistance." The Romero Award Ceremony. 30 Mar. 2003, Rothko Chapel, Houston, TX, USA. Keynote address.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

Pudd'nhead Wilson

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Courage vs. fear Courage Fear

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Pudd'nhead Wilson

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1894 1890s 19th century

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Original Citation

Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." The Century Magazine, Nov. 1893-Oct. 1894.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Pudd'nHead Wilson and Other Tales, edited by R.D. Gooder. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Who has knowledge of what is to be dreaded and what is not—the man whom I call courageous?

Nicias

Quoted in Laches, by Plato

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Courage vs. fear Courage

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Nicias

Author

Plato

Source

Laches

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Philosophical dialogue Dialogue

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Definition

Language

Greek

Time

380 BC 380s BC 4th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Nicias. Quoted in Λάχης [Laches], written by Plato. c. 348 BC, sect. 195d.

Current Citation

Nicias. Quoted in "Laches." Plato: Complete Works, edited by John M. Cooper and D. S. Hutchinson. Hackett Publishing, 1997, sect. 195d.