WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 03 Nov 2026 22:36:50 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg controlled – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Shaftesbury, Earl of -- Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, Vol. 1, “Sensus Communis” (1711) https://wist.info/shaftesbury-anthony-cooper/27798/ https://wist.info/shaftesbury-anthony-cooper/27798/#respond Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:14:34 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=27798 True courage … has so little to do with Anger, that there lies always the strongest Suspicion against it, where this Passion is highest. The true Courage is the cool and calm. The bravest of Men have the least of a brutal bullying Insolence; and in the very time of Danger are found the most serene, pleasant, and free. Rage, we know, can make a Coward forget himself and fight. But what is done in Fury, or Anger, can never be plac’d to the account of Courage.


Anthony Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713) English politician and philosopher
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