Endurance
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
endurance · endurance of the soul · endure · hardships · toils
in the texts
Laches
A steadfastness of soul proposed by Laches as the common quality underlying courage, which Socrates shows must be further qualified since foolish endurance is not noble.
Not with any justice, Socrates.
The man opposed to him, I should say, Socrates.
And endurance joined with wisdom is noble and good?
Cyropaedia
Endurance is required of soldiers but especially of the general, whose honor and visibility help him bear hardship.
You mean to say, father, said he, that in everything the general must show more endurance than his men.
by that I mean, if your soldiers are physically in good training, if their hearts are well steeled and the arts of war well studied.
for bear in mind that the same toils do not affect the general and the private in the same way, though they have the same sort of bodies;