F.H. Peters

by doing just acts we become just, and by doing acts of temperance and courage we become temperate and courageous.

For it is repeated acts of a particular kind that give a man a particular character.

But to seek death as a refuge from poverty, or love, or any painful thing, is not the act of a brave man, but of a coward. For it is effeminacy thus to fly from vexation; and in such a case death is accepted not because it is noble, but simply as an escape from evil.