Bravery
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
bravery · a kind of conservation · courage
in the texts
Republic
The virtue of the soldier class, defined as the steadfast preservation of law-instilled convictions about what is fearful, likened to fast-dyed wool.
A kind of conservation, I said, is what I mean by bravery.
This power in the soul, then, this unfailing conservation of right and lawful belief about things to be and not to be feared is what I call and would assume to be courage, unless you have something different to say.
Letters to Lucilius
The virtue of facing fearsome things without submission
Bravery is the despiser of things to be feared;