Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. Columbia Encyclopedia World Factbook American Heritage Coll. Familiar Quotations , 10th ed. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. There is no real piety without heroism.
Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.
5 Life is the apprenticeship to progressive renunciation, to the steady diminution of our claims, of our hopes, of our powers, of our liberty. A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks. The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes. The modern separation of enlightenment and virtue, of thought and conscience, of the intellectual aristocracy from the honest and common crowd is the greatest danger that can threaten liberty.