Not courage before witnesses but the courage of hermits and eagles,
which is no longer watched even by a god.
Cold souls, mules, the blind, and the drunken I do not call brave.
Brave is he who knows fear but conquers fear, who sees the abyss, but with pride.
Who sees the abyss but with the eyes of an eagle: who graps the abyss with the talons of an eagle --
that man has courage.
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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