POMPEY: It is vain for the coward to fly; death follows close behind;
It is only by defying it that the brave escape.
[POMPEE: Le lâche fuit en vain; la mort vole à sa suite:
C’est en la défiant que le brave l’évite.]
It is only by defying it that the brave escape.
[POMPEE: Le lâche fuit en vain; la mort vole à sa suite:
C’est en la défiant que le brave l’évite.]
Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
Le Triumvirat [The Triumvirate], Act 4, sc. 7 (1763)
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Voltaire - Le Triumvirat [The Triumvirate], Act 4, sc. 7 (1763) | WIST Quotations
POMPEY: It is vain for the coward to fly; death follows close behind; It is only by defying it that the brave escape. [POMPEE: Le lâche fuit en vain; la mort vole à sa suite: C'est en la défiant que le brave l'évite.] Sometimes given "... for the coward to…