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If then we may say the same of Courage, of course death and

wounds must be painful to the Brave man and against his will:

still he endures these because it is honourable so to do or

because it is dishonourable not to do so. And the more complete

his virtue and his happiness so much the more will he be pained

at the notion of death: since to such a man as he is it is best

worth while to live, and he with full consciousness is deprived

of the greatest goods by death, and this is a painful idea. But

he is not the less Brave for feeling it to be so, nay rather it

may be he is shown to be more so because he chooses the honour

that may be reaped in war in preference to retaining safe

possession of these other goods. The fact is that to act with

pleasure does not belong to all the virtues, except so far as a

man realises the End of his actions.