Courage (n.) is praised not on its own account but because it begets pleasure, as cowardice is blamed because it begets pain.
Courage (n.) on the battlefield is not a nice calculation of the balance of pleasures but hot blood and the stimulus of impulse.
Courage (n.) is impossible unless pain is not an evil, for no man can disregard and despise a thing he decides to be evil.
Courage (n.) is legions marching with cheerful and lofty spirit to ground from which they believe they will never return.
Courage (n.) answers \"We shall hide the sun from your sight with our arrows\" with \"Then we shall fight in the shade.\"
Courage (n.) would have nothing to consist in if pain were not really pain.
Courage (n.) that depends on rage is no courage, for anger is altogether irrational: Hercules was not angry with the Nemean lion.
Courage (n.) is the virtue that contends for the right.