Courage can be excellent only as it is “‘informed’ by prudence.”21 The truly courageous person “does not suffer injury for its own sake.”22 Courage “has nothing to do with a purely vital, blind, exuberant daredevil spirit.” The person “who recklessly and indiscriminately courts any kind of danger is not for that reason brave; all he proves is that . . . he considers all manner of things more valuable than the personal intactness he risks for their sake.”
