Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
AristotleRead
He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.
Interpretation
Courage involves enduring challenges and fears for just causes, approached correctly and timely.
In this quote, Aristotle emphasizes that true courage is not merely the absence of fear or the ability to take risks. Instead, it is about confronting fears and enduring difficulties for the right reasons, utilizing proper methods, and doing so at the appropriate times, suggesting that the essence of courage is deeply tied to moral integrity and wisdom.
In practice
During a motivational speech about facing fears and making ethical choices.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.
For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I'm good on ice.
I watched pretty much every coming out video on YouTube that has ever been posted; I watched it in between 14 and a half and 15. Those coming out videos, and those people on YouTube, those brave, brave, brave people on YouTube, without them, I don't know where I'd be.
Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating. But there's a limit to the amount of incivility and inequality and inhumanity that each individual can tolerate. I crossed that line. And I'm no longer alone.
He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back! Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierce as the day we ripped Troy's glittering crown of towers down. Stand by me - furious now as then, my bright-eyed one - and I would fight three hundred men, great goddess, with you to brace me, comrade-in-arms in battle!
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