They neither yearn for difficulties and dangers nor resent them when they arrive. They know that acting well and doing well among the threats and struggles of this life require the virtues, courage among others. They know that courage generates the right kind and measure of fear and confidence, not through the difficult restraint of excess but through the ease of habit. And they know that acting courageously is painful precisely because it involves responding well in the midst of the gravest dangers and standing firm among the most pressing difficulties. 66