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20. The soul that is altogether courageous and1
great is marked above all by two characteristics:
one of these is indifference to outward circumstances;
for such a person cherishes the conviction that
nothing but moral goodness and propriety deserves to
be either admired or wished for or striven after, and
that he ought not to be subject to any man or any
passion or any accident of fortune. The second
characteristic is that, when the soul is disciplined in
the way above mentioned, one should do deeds not only
great and in the highest degree useful, but extremely
arduous and laborious and fraught with danger both
to life and to many things that make life worth living.
1 Characteristics of Fortitude:
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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