Cowardice

for example Cowardice, which is a vice of deficiency, is more opposed to Courage than is Rashness which is a vice of excess;

for example, because Rashness seems to resemble Courage more than Cowardice does, and to be nearer to it, we reckon Cowardice rather than Rashness as the contrary of Courage;

The man who runs away from everything in fear and never endures anything becomes a coward;

Cowardice is that a man be such that he does not advance upon what he ought to advance upon.

Cowardice is the vice of the spirited part, by which they are dismayed by fears, and most of all by those that concern death.

It belongs to cowardice to be easily moved by any chance fears, and most of all by those concerning death and bodily injuries, and to suppose that it is better to be saved in any way whatever than to die nobly.

the vices of the spirited part are irascibility and cowardice;

Cowardice, you may be sure, would seem to be a kind of fearful shrinking of the soul;

for I will never bring myself to do anything base or cowardly, if I can help it.

for at that moment you will find your opponents most cowardly and your own men valiant.

For you know how the brave celebrate a day in battle, and how cowards.

Then do you think that those who are good in the presence of terrors and dangers are courageous, and those who are bad are cowards?

It follows that those who know how to deal well with terrors and dangers are courageous, and those who utterly mistake the way are cowards?

Of course not, for in that case many madmen and cowards would be courageous.