Ocupation: Biographer
Life: 45 - 120
To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.
- Plutarch
source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 166), 1895.
topic: Courage, Men, Evil, Good Actions, Incurring, Noble Deeds