We should apply this exertion of the soul to everything else.

Is anger inflamed?
is lust excited?
we must have recourse to the same citadel, and apply to the same arms.

But since it is pain which we are at present discussing, we will let the other subjects alone.

To bear pain, then, sedately and calmly, it is of great use to consider with all our soul, as the saying is, how noble it is to do so, for we are naturally desirous (as I said before, but it cannot be too often repeated) and very much inclined to what is honorable, of which, if we discover but the least glimpse, there is nothing which we are not prepared to undergo and suffer to attain it.
From this impulse of our minds, this desire for genuine glory and honorable conduct, it is that such dangers are supported in war, and that brave men are not sensible of their wounds in action, or, if they are sensible of them, prefer death to the departing but the least step from their honor.

The Decii saw the shining swords of their enemies when they were rushing into the battle.