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It is only by defying it that the brave escape.

[POMPEE: Le lâche fuit en vain; la mort vole à sa suite:
C’est en la défiant que le brave l’évite.]


Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
Le Triumvirat [The Triumvirate], Act 4, sc. 7 (1763)
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Sometimes given "... for the coward to flee ..." See also Shakespeare (1599).

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