In this way, the bravery of the warrior underwrites collective civic cowardice, while fostering a slack, insipid patriotism.

When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot.

One may be humble out of pride.

At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.

There is nothing so skilful in its own defence as imperious pride. […] Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second; and so on till death.

Shame on me for making such a mockery of myself. Blame it on my wounded pride. The fact is that my fear of being ridiculed is so intense I'd rather beat my critics to the punch. That's the epitome of cowardice.

...Sometimes with men, their pride can override their hearts..."

your soul has been assailed by cowardice,
which often weighs so heavily on a man — distracting him from honorable trials — as phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me.

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

, your spirit is attacked by cowardly fear, that often weighs men down, so that it deflects them from honourable action

Our pride often grows fat on what we cut from our other faults

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

The other's glory seems to make him prey
to shame, as though reproached for coward fear.