Fortune and love favour the brave.
[Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.]

Fortune and love favour the brave.
[Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.]

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Toil for the brave!
The brave that are no more.

Toil for the brave!
The brave that are no more.

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,
By all their country's wishes blest!
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How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,
By all their country's wishes blest!
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By fairy hands their knell is rung,
By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

Brave men were living before Agamemnon.

Brave men were living before Agamemnon.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate read more

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through
his iron, through his blood.
[Ger., Zwar read more

The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through
his iron, through his blood.
[Ger., Zwar der Tapfere nennt sich Herr der Lander
Durch sein Eisen, durch sein Blut.]

Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, but left the shield.

Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, but left the shield.