“Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers; How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive; most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts.” MenWorldLooksSelfLyingSocialCitiesFlowerBuiltMarkWingsBraveCellsBeesHivHivesLying MenCramps Author:Philip James Bailey
“True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. Resolution lies more in the head than in the veins, and a just sense of honor and of infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry us farther than all the force of mechanism.” MindLyingForceResultsCourageDutyHonorBraveReasoningResolutionMechanismVeinsInfamyTrue Courage Author:Jeremy Collier
“Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this: Every group we belong to - by gender, sex, race, religion, age - is an in-group, surrounded by an immense out-group, living next door and all over the world, who will be alive as far into the future as humanity has a future. That out-group is called other people. It is for them that we write.” PeopleWorldWritingHardAgeLyingHumanityNextAsksSexRaceOpinionAliveDoorsGroupsUniversalSafetyBraveGenderImmenseOutsidersValidityAffiliationCateringPersonal Opinions Book:The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
“Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.” MenLyingPromiseShameBraveVicesBrave ManStoops Author:Pierre Corneille
“Her seductive power, however, did not lie in her looks [...]. In reality, Cleopatra was physically unexceptional and had no political power, yet both Caesar and Antony, brave and clever men, saw none of this. What they saw was a woman who constantly transformed herself before their eyes, a one-woman spectacle.Her dress and makeup changed from day to day, but always gave her a heightened, goddesslike appearance. Her words could be banal enough, but were spoken so sweetly that listeners would find themselves remembering not what she said but how she said it.” MenLooksSaidEnoughRealityEyeRememberPoliticalLyingSawsChangedDressesBraveAppearanceCleverMakeupTransformedListenersDay To DaySeductiveOne WomanPolitical PowerClever ManAntony Author:Robert Greene
“The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man every land's a home.” MenMayHomeLyingSeaLandBirdBraveryBraveDepthFishesBlowBreezeBrave Man Author:Ovid