A Quote by Seneca the Younger

A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

Seneca the Younger

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Calls Cautious Coward Himself Miser Thrifty

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Seneca the Younger
Roman - Philosopher
4 BC - 65

The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty.

Publilius Syrus

The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.

Henry Home, Lord Kames

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.

Publilius Syrus

The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

Aristotle

I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

Namie Amuro

The miser robs himself.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.

Samuel Johnson

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

Gertrude Stein

I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.