I have never known anyone so brave, so brave by instinct, or anyone who hated so much to be told so.

It was almost the only thing that could make him angry.

All his life he had been facing death, and to take risks seemed to him as natural as to get up in the morning and eat his breakfast.

But he had started out to consider the very thing which before he had taken for granted, and here is an extract from his conclusions.

I paraphrase him, for he was not grammatical.
_It's easy enough to be brave if you're feeling well and have food inside you.