Courage is knowing what not to fear. — Plato

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. — Edgar Allan Poe
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength. — Lao Tzu
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. — Mark Twain
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. — Plato
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. — Plato
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine. — Plato