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Well then, as has been said, Courage is a mean state in respect

of objects inspiring boldness or fear, in the circumstances which

have been stated, and the Brave man chooses his line and

withstands danger either because to do so is honourable, or

because not to do so is base. But dying to escape from poverty,

or the pangs of love, or anything that is simply painful, is the

act not of a Brave man but of a coward; because it is mere

softness to fly from what is toilsome, and the suicide braves the

terrors of death not because it is honourable but to get out of

the reach of evil.

Chapter XI.

Courage proper is somewhat of the kind I have described, but

there are dispositions, differing in five ways,[18] which also

bear in common parlance the name of Courage.