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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and read more
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and
unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they read more
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and
unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a
divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).
[Lat., Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona
Multi; sed omnes illacrimabiles
Urguentur ignotique sacro.]
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to read more
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
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.
Fortune and love favour the brave.
[Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.]
Fortune and love favour the brave.
[Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.]
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the
surface and their toughness in the middle.
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the
surface and their toughness in the middle.
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.
O friends, be men; so act that none may feel
Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men.
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O friends, be men; so act that none may feel
Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men.
Think each one of this children and his wife,
His home, his parents, living yet and dead.
For them, the absent ones, I supplicate,
And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.
Brave men were living before Agamemnon.
Brave men were living before Agamemnon.
