Self-control is the chief element in self-respect and self-respect is the chief element in courage. — Thucydides. 5th-century BC Athenian historian and general
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.
The ability to understand a question from all sides meant one was totally unfit for action. Fanatical enthusiasm was the mark of the real man.
A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.