“They were brave and splendid, all the men. They died like brave men.”
Steve Turner (1949) British writer
Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 151
“Brave men are brave from the very first.”
— Pierre Corneille, book Le Cid
Les hommes valeureux le sont du premier coup.
Chimène, act II, scene iii.
Le Cid (1636)
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Fortibus est fortuna viris data.
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Quocirca vivite fortes, fortiaque adversis opponite pectora rebus
Book II, Satire II, Line 135-136 (trans. E. C. Wickham)
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
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Walter Scott book Quentin Durward
Quentin Durward (1823), Ch. 3.