Complete courage and absolute cowardice are extremes that very few…

Complete courage and absolute cowardice are extremes that very few men fall into. The vast middle space contains all the intermediate kinds and degrees of courage; and these differ as much from one another as men’s faces or their humors do.

François de La Rochefoucauld, Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 216 (1665-1678)

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