Valor not

Violence

True Greatness

The
Root of
Courage

Brutality

Maternal

Valor

IN

N a false quarrel there is no true valour.
Much Ado About Nothing. Act V, Sc. 1.

RIGHTLY to be great

Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honour's at the stake.

V

Hamlet. Act IV, Sc. 4.

VIRTUE is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Measure for Measure. Act III, Sc. 1.

IT is excellent

To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous

To use it like a giant.

Measure for Measure. Act II, Sc. 2.

poor

THEP diminutive of birds, will

The most

fight,

Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.

Macbeth. Act IV, Sc. 2.

T

FEAR

O fly the boar before the boar pursues, Were to incense the boar to follow us And make pursuit where he did mean no Richard III. Act III, Sc. 2.

chase.

O

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth

T%

strength,

Gives in your weakness strength unto your foe,

And so your follies fight against yourself.

King Richard II. Act III, Sc. 2.

INSTINCT is a great matter; I was now a coward on instinct.

THE

'HE better part of valour is discretion.
Henry IV. Part I, Act V, Sc.

4.

EARS make devils cherubins; they never
see truly.

Fee

Troilus and Cressida. Act III, Sc. 2.

Fear

Creates
Danger

A Coward's Wit

Fear
Distorts
Sight

The Fortune of War

HE friend hath lost his friend;

THE

And the best quarrels, in the heat, are curs'd

By those that feel their sharpness.

King Lear. Act V, Sc. 3.

Self-destructive

Fury

The Fruits of

Peace

T

O be furious

Is

to be frighted out of fear; and in that mood

The dove will peck the estridge; and I see still,

A diminution in our captain's brain

Restores his heart. When valour preys on reason,

It eats the sword it fights with.

Antony and Cleopatra. Act III, Sc. 13.

FAMINE, ere clean it o'erthrow nature,

valiant.

Plenty and peace breeds cowards; hardness

ever

Of hardiness is mother.

Cymbeline. Act III, Sc. 6.

C

OWARDS father cowards, and base
things sire base.

Inheritance

SMA

Cymbeline. Act IV, Sc. 2.

PRUDENCE

MALL showers last long, but sudden
storms are short;

He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
With eager feeding food doth choke the
feeder. Richard II. Act II, Sc. I.

WHERE clouds are seen, wise men put
on their cloaks.

I

Richard II. Act II, Sc. 3.

WERE better to be eaten with a rust, than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. Henry IV. Part II, Act I, Sc. 2.

A

CAUSE on foot,

Lives so in hope as in an early spring We see the appearing buds, which to prove

fruit,

Hope gives not so much warrant, as despair

The

Hare

and the Tortoise

Foresight

A

Modern
Instance

A Parable

A Maxim for Defenders

A Fable

That frosts will bite them. When we mean to build,

We first survey the plot, then draw the model;

And when we see the figure of the house,
Then must we rate the cost of the erection;
Which if we find outweighs ability,

What do we then but draw anew the model
In fewer offices, or at least desist

To build at all?

King Henry IV. Part II, Act I, Sc. 3.

N cases of defence, 'tis best to weigh

INTcases of defence, mighty tha te seems,

So the proportions of defence are fill'd;
Which, of a weak and niggardly projection,
Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat with scant-
ing

A little cloth.

THE

King Henry V. Act II, Sc. 4.

HE man that once did sell the lion's skin While the beast liv'd, was kill'd with hunting him.

King Henry V. Act IV, Sc. 3.