“We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.”

“We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.”

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”

“Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.”

“A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.”

“Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest — I mean we are not concerned to know what goodness essentially is, but how we are to become good men, for this alone gives the study its practical value — we must apply our minds to the solution of the problems of conduct. ”