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.
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.
A kind of conservation, I said, is what I mean by bravery.
Letters to Lucilius
The virtue of facing fearsome things without submission
Bravery is the despiser of things to be feared;