"Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome."

Courage

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This quotation examines the core nature of Courage as articulated by Plautus. Within historical and literary traditions, reflections on Courage provide actionable mental models, challenging individuals to evaluate personal ethics, self-discipline, and daily actions.

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About Plautus

Titus Maccius Plautus was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by Livius Andronicus, the innovator of Latin literature. The word Plautine refers to both Plautus's own works and works similar to or influenced by his.
He influenced some of the greatest figures in literature, including Shakespeare and Molière.

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"Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising."

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"He who inspires courage in a single soul has led a monumental campaign. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

— Linda Barnes (writer)
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"Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?"

— Jonathan Safran Foer
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"One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality."

— Kenneth Branagh
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"A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur that the computer mouse is a hotrod that the box is a cave that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something."

— Mo Rocca
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