Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate read more

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

In cold blood he leapt into burning Etna.
[Lat., Ardentem frigidus Aetnam insiluit.]

In cold blood he leapt into burning Etna.
[Lat., Ardentem frigidus Aetnam insiluit.]

At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. read more

At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.

Brave men were living before Agamemnon.

Brave men were living before Agamemnon.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the
surface and their toughness in the middle.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the
surface and their toughness in the middle.

Brave men are brave from the very first.
[Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]

Brave men are brave from the very first.
[Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]

Firemen are going to get killed. When they join the department they face that fact. When a man becomes a read more

Firemen are going to get killed. When they join the department they face that fact. When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work. They were not thinking of getting killed when they went where death lurked. They went there to put the fire out, and got killed. Firefighters do not regard themselves as heroes because they do what the business requires.