If you should kill me, unarmed as I am, you would be more pitiable than any other man in Burgundy.

You would despise yourself, and all mankind would spurn you." "Do you not fear me ?" asked the duke, still clutching the hilt of his unsheathed dagger.
"I do not believe you have the least intent to kill me," answered Max, "but if you have, you may easily do so, and I shall be less to be pitied than you.

No, I do not fear you! Do I look it, my lord ?" "No, by God, you don't look it.

Neither have you cause to fear me," said Charles.

"There is not another man in Christendom could have stood this ordeal without flinching." To a brave man, bravery is above all the cardinal virtue.