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Definition of Cowardice
Cowardice

Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.

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Cowardice Quotations

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Mohandas Gandhi

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Mark Twain

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Aristotle

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
Eric Hoffer

Cowardice Translations

cowardice in Danish is fejghed
cowardice in Dutch is lafheid, lafhartigheid
cowardice in German is Feigheit
cowardice in Norwegian is feighet
cowardice in Portuguese is cobardia
cowardice in Swedish is feghet


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