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The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.

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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

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Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

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