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 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.] 
 Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and 
unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they read more 
 Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and 
unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a 
divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).
 [Lat., Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona
  Multi; sed omnes illacrimabiles
   Urguentur ignotique sacro.] 
 The brave man seeks not popular applause,
 Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause;
  Unsham'd, though foil'd, read more 
 The brave man seeks not popular applause,
 Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause;
  Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can,
   Force is of brutes, but honor is of man. 
Brave men were living before Agamemnon.
Brave men were living before Agamemnon.
 In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who 
can endure a wretched life.
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 In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who 
can endure a wretched life.
 [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam;
  Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.] 
 The truly brave,
 When they behold the brave oppressed with odds,
  Are touched with a desire to read more 
 The truly brave,
 When they behold the brave oppressed with odds,
  Are touched with a desire to shield and save:--
   A mixture of wild beasts and demi-gods
    Are they--now furious as the sweeping wave,
     Now moved with pity; even as sometimes nods
      The rugged tree unto the summer wind,
       Compassion breathes along the savage mind. 
 Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,
 And asks no omen but his country's cause.  
 Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,
 And asks no omen but his country's cause. 
 'Tis more brave
 To live, than to die.  
 'Tis more brave
 To live, than to die. 
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.