One time I figured out this: if you aren't brave, it doesn't matter what other virtues you have, because you aren't going to act them out. What good does it do to be able to see truth if you're too chickenshit to act on the basis of what you see? I finally reduced all human virtues to one: bravery.
Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you're afraid, you don't commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
quoted by Dick in intro; defined 1972; http://www.bartleby.com/66/96/16196.html
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