# Covardia

Covardia é um vício que convencionalmente é visto como a corrupção da prudência, oposto a toda coragem ou bruvura. É um comportamento que reflete falta de coragem; medo, timidez, poltronice; fraqueza de ânimo; pusilanimidade ou ainda ânimo traiçoeiro.
       - I am a man of peace. God knows how I love peace. But I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.
          - "Kossuth in New England: A Full Account of the Hungarian Governor's Visit to Massachusetts" - página 46, Lajos Kossuth, Editora BiblioLife, 1852, ISBN 1146734654, 9781146734653, 366 páginas
       - la lâcheté, c'est de la peur consentie; et le courage n'est souvent que de la peur vaincue
          - Nos filles et nos fils: scènes et études de famille‎ - Página 66, de Ernest Legouvé, Gabriel Jean B. Ernest W. Legouvé, Paul Philippoteaux - Publicado por Hetzel, 1878 - 346 páginas
       - la couardise est mere de la cruauté
          - Les Essais: ensemble la vie de l'autheur et 2 tables‎ - Página 509, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne - 1652
       - Non-violence and cowardice go ill together. I can imagine a fully armed man to be at heart a coward. Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not cowardice. But true non-violence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.
          - Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi - página 137, Gandhi (Mahatma) - he Indian Printing Works, 1947 - 620 páginas
       - Fonte: "Máximas dos Anacletos, II" - Confucionismo
       - Lev Tolstoi - Fonte: Em Louvor aos Animais - Instituto Vida Animal
       - Cavaleiros do Zodíaco, Alberich de Megrez, Saga de Asgard
    - Jean-Jacques Rousseau; "Do Contrato Social"
       - A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight, and too fat to run
          - Philistine: A Periodical of Protest, December 1902 to May 1903‎ - Página 155, Elbert Hubbard - Kessinger Publishing, 2003, ISBN 0766164500, 9780766164505 - 400 páginas
       - It is not because of woman's cowardice, incapacity, nor, above all, because of her general superior virtue, that she will end war when her voice is fully and clearly heard in the governance of states — it is because, on this one point, and on this point almost alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not
          - "Woman and Labor" - página 178, Olive Schreiner, Kessinger Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1417936460, 9781417936465, 308 páginas
       - Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
          - Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British‎ - item 3366 Página 144, de Thomas Fuller, Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Publicado por Printed for B. Barker, 1732 - 297 páginas
       - Le mariage est la seule aventure ouverte aux lâches
          - Voltaire citado em "Épreuve, non vendue" - Página 82, Claudec, 2007, ISBN 2952911312, 9782952911313
       - Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devis'd at first to keep the strong in awe
          - King Richard III in: The Works of Shakespear: Historical plays: King Henry VI, pt. I-III. King Richard III. King Henry VIII, página 400, William Shakespeare, ‎Sir Thomas Hanmer, ‎Alexander Pope - Printed at the Theatre, 1743