Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
CL
C.S. LewisThe Screwtape Letters (1942), Letter XXIX
About C.S. Lewis
British author and scholar, creator of The Chronicles of Narnia. (1898-1963)
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- Aim at Heaven and you will get earth 'thrown in': aim at earth and you will get neither.Mere Christianity (1952)
- Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.Dedication, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
- Friendship, I have said, is born at the moment when one man says to another 'What! You too? I thought that no one but myself...'The Four Loves (1960)
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- I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.Galileo Galilei
- In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.Galileo Galilei
- Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.Leonardo da Vinci
- The chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.Plato
- It would be better for me that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.Socrates
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