Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave (The Stoic Virtues Series)

by Ryan Holiday

This is why we show up for work every day even though we aren’t wanted. Even though it’s dangerous. We aren’t the one in the wrong, so why should we be driven away?

Marcus Aurelius was reminding himself that “you can also commit injustice by doing nothing.”

That’s the question the world is asking sometimes. It knows we’re brave, so it wants to know: Death or kintsugi? Will you find a way to become stronger at the broken places? Or will you so cling to your old ways that you will be shattered? A hero gets back up. They heal. They grow. For themselves and others.

Nothing proves this more, in fact, than the relationship between courage and the other three virtues of temperance, justice, and wisdom. These things are impossible, worthless even, without courage to secure them.