A Quote by Cato the Elder

There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

Cato the Elder

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Cato the Elder
Roman - Statesman
234 BC - 149 BC

Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

Plutarch

Mothers know the difference between a broth and a consommé. And the difference between damask and chintz. And the difference between vinyl and Naugahyde. And the difference between a house and a home. And the difference between a romantic and a stalker. And the difference between a rock and a hard place.

Patricia Marx

Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely toleration, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening. Only within the interdependency of different strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters

Audre Lorde

He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.

George R. R. Martin

Courage is an angel which makes the difference between a good life and a great life.

Kate Reed

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

Ron Reagan

And it has been sarcastically said, that there is a wide difference between a good physician and a bad one, but a small difference between a good physician and no physician at all; by which it is meant to insinuate, that the mischievous officiousness of art does commonly more than counterbalance any benefit derivable from it.

Gilbert Blane

I consider the difference between a system founded on the legislatures only, and one founded on the people, to be the true difference between a league or treaty and a constitution.

James Madison

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.

Truman Capote

The difference between mere management and leadership is communication.

Winston Churchill

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

Henry David Thoreau

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy.

Thomas Arnold

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability... it is energy.

Tom Arnold

Saba used to say there was a difference between bravery and courage. Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.

Gayle Forman

There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Everything was okay, as long as I could dream . Its amazing, really, the difference between having a dream and not having any left that can come true. It's the difference between living and dying .

Alicia Witt

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