Yet, he will not acquire the reputation of courage from not fearing these, nor will he acquire it if he be exempt from fear when about to be scourged.

Again, if a man be afraid of envy from others, or of insults to his children or wife, he will not for that reason be regarded as a coward.

It is by being superior to the fear of great evils, that a man is extolled as courageous; and the greatest of evils is death, since it is a final close, as well of good as of evil.

Hence the dangers of war are the greatest occasion of courage.

But the cause must be honourable (VI.).
Thus the key to true courage is the quality or merit of the action.
That man is brave, who both fears, and affronts without fear, what he ought and when he ought: who suffers and acts according to the value of the cause, and according to a right judgment of it.