“Brave men are brave from the very first.”
Les hommes valeureux le sont du premier coup.
Chimène, act II, scene iii.
Le Cid (1636)
“To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.”
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Robert Harris
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Sit ergo nobis orator quem constituimus is qui a M. Catone finitur vir bonus dicendi peritus, verum, id quod et ille posuit prius et ipsa natura potius ac maius est, utique vir bonus.
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